While working on my final project, I have been thinking about mapping places a lot. These two site visually map conversations, and words. The thesaurus is interesting because it groups words in clusters according to meaning--it is a much more efficient way of finding words, and then jumping to new words. It reminds me a lot of the Baltimore County Public Library search, which visually shows you results you can modify.
The conversation map is a much more in-depth version of those maps. It is a Usenet
newsgroup browser that searched through the threads on the soc.culture.albanian newsgroup, and organized the conversations happening within that group. It indexes the threads by themes, threads, and who is discussing them. you can then expand the words describing a theme into the full thread.
It also is, to me, an interesting study in social relations on the internet--I would like to see this applied to livejournal or facebook, or twitter! This also gives me food for thought in organizing my thoughts on St Mary's into a map for my final project.
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