listening to repeating

Thanks to a Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) plugin, you can now “bibliomap” your Zotero library.  Fun!  Er . . . wait . . .  useful!

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After a cursory go (about thirty minutes) at it, I’ve been able to:

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I discovered DoodleBuzz today.  It’s pretty hot.  While it took me a moment to acclimate to its expectations and handling, one of its points is to re-think the common, menu-based, user-friendly interface.  With that in mind, what DoodleBuzz does quite well is enable you to draw affiliations across information, producing an aesthetic of aggregation as you go.  It also gives you a sense of data vertigo.  You spin a lot as you search and make lines; and, as with any trajectory, you quickly lose your starting point.

Here are some stills of my doodle-buzzing. You can click on the images for larger versions, better resolutions.  (I also recommend listening to DJ Prepare’s mix tapes as you sketch out.)

Starting with “digital humanities”:

And then “cyborg”:

Toward “media ecology”: