Apr
23
2009
New Tool Plots Online Comments Like Stars in Constellations
Posted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizParticipatory media may be the future, but a look at most comment threads shows that technology hasn’t figured out a good way to force humans to act like citizens instead of fifth graders. UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media hopes it has a way to fix that mess in its Opinion Space visualization tool, which provides a planetarium view of users opinions.