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Visual Digg-ing

Digg has been experimenting with interfaces that use data visualization. [Link]

Digg is a community of users, and the data produced is real-time information about that community's behavior. As the tools hold a mirror to the community's actions, Rodenbeck says, they may already be influencing the way the community acts, like a biofeedback machine. As the tools become more interactive, this effect is likely to increase and become easier to measure.

"There's definitely a change in behavior when you make that behavior visible, and you can see it," Rodenbeck says. "If a community can see itself and recognize itself as a community, that's a very powerful thing."

jon posted this at 7:13 AM
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