{"id":326,"date":"2008-02-21T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/the-webs-secret-stories\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T08:49:07","slug":"the-webs-secret-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/the-webs-secret-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web&#8217;s secret stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another wonderful ted talk, this time by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/speakers\/view\/id\/125\">Jonathan Harris<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/JONATHANHARRIS-2007_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\" FlashVars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/JONATHANHARRIS-2007_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" name=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web &#8212; so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. He presents &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wefeelfine.org\/\">We Feel Fine<\/a>,&#8221;  which uses a technique called passive observation by scouring blogs to collect the planet&#8217;s emoti(c)ons. It&#8217;s an amazing social tool. Jonathan also presents and the &#8220;Yahoo! Time Capsule,&#8221; which preserves images, quotes and thoughts snapped up in 2006. And he premieres &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/universe.daylife.com\/\">Universe<\/a>,&#8221; which presents current events as constellations of words &#8212; a tag cloud of our collective consciousness<\/p>\n<p>The visualisations they have implemented across these applications are absolutely amazing . I&#8217;m very very impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another wonderful ted talk, this time by Jonathan Harris Jonathan wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web &#8212; so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/the-webs-secret-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[281,229],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-technology","tag-jonathan_harris","tag-ted_talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}