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to rebuild their digital past through the recovery (and display) of emails exchanged over the years. This is the goal that brought a young American artist and programmer to develop My Map, the original visualization software personal social networks.
Christopher Baker, this is the name oestrus computer scientist, he started from a very simple problem: in order to put over 60 thousand emails sent and received between 1998 and today, to rebuild their digital person. Baker is one of many that has kept its archives, a large amount of mail that says very clearly on facts, habits, thoughts, knowledge and change. In
page presentation of the draft reads: "Like many people I have archived all emails exchanged over the years, in the hope of someday revisiting my past. I wanted to find the many relationships built with classmates, colleagues, friends and family. But I realized that I could not do it and re-reading all 60 thousand e-mails one by one. "
And it is this emerging need, we read about Neatorama , which led Baker to devise My Map. The program, developed in Java with a reuse library Processing , you can play visually the relationships between the subject and various contacts in your address book, from the review of the To:, FROM:, and CC of any email. You can appreciate the intensity of the relationship with the individual through the junction lines of different thickness. and examine the different "temporal phases" of his life in email, with graphical representations of the "relational groupings" built and abandoned ones.
But beside the intention "organization," Baker to move there is something even a rather expressive and artistic. It is the same developer to explain: "In this way, My Map is in effect a self-portrait, a reflection on my associations and a way to find my real position."
In recent years, given the growing number and intensity of personal relationships online, other projects have attempted to provide solutions for the graphic mapping of the latter. Among the pioneers in this sector was undoubtedly Sociable Media Group at MIT in Boston, where in 2006 he was drafted a tool of representation conversations built with the mails. And similar attempts have been made, more recently, with regard to the interrelationships between blog.
John Arata
to rebuild their digital past through the recovery (and display) of emails exchanged over the years. This is the goal that brought a young American artist and programmer to develop My Map, the original visualization software personal social networks.
Christopher Baker, this is the name oestrus computer scientist, he started from a very simple problem: in order to put over 60 thousand emails sent and received between 1998 and today, to rebuild their digital person. Baker is one of many that has kept its archives, a large amount of mail that says very clearly on facts, habits, thoughts, knowledge and change. In
page presentation of the draft reads: "Like many people I have archived all emails exchanged over the years, in the hope of someday revisiting my past. I wanted to find the many relationships built with classmates, colleagues, friends and family. But I realized that I could not do it and re-reading all 60 thousand e-mails one by one. "
And it is this emerging need, we read about Neatorama , which led Baker to devise My Map. The program, developed in Java with a reuse library Processing , you can play visually the relationships between the subject and various contacts in your address book, from the review of the To:, FROM:, and CC of any email. You can appreciate the intensity of the relationship with the individual through the junction lines of different thickness. and examine the different "temporal phases" of his life in email, with graphical representations of the "relational groupings" built and abandoned ones.
But beside the intention "organization," Baker to move there is something even a rather expressive and artistic. It is the same developer to explain: "In this way, My Map is in effect a self-portrait, a reflection on my associations and a way to find my real position."
In recent years, given the growing number and intensity of personal relationships online, other projects have attempted to provide solutions for the graphic mapping of the latter. Among the pioneers in this sector was undoubtedly Sociable Media Group at MIT in Boston, where in 2006 he was drafted a tool of representation conversations built with the mails. And similar attempts have been made, more recently, with regard to the interrelationships between blog.
John Arata
