Visualization Ideas

Concepts for book visualization

• Photocopies of early letters
• Excerpts from famouse correspondences

Title Candidates

Title / central concept ideas:

• Dear Reader: Written Communications from Cicero to Cyrano, to Telegraph to iPhone
• Communication Gap: The Chaotic, Devolving State of Written Communications
• The Cyptic Psyche: The Chaotic, Devolving State of Written Communications & What it Means for Love, Family & Intellect

Book Layout

Every chapter will have these elements:

• a representative excerpt of the communication ("use case")
• a "good example" and a "bad" example
• clear statement of the paradigm

More time on social nets than email

This per NYT post via @stevecase

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/internet/18drill.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Much of this is video - "cool medium" ?

Andrew Potter & discourse

Possible additional ideas from Andrew Potter:

• Topic drift as a passive indicator of discourse quality
• Self - Other - Idea continuum

Google Map Links / Generation

This snip shows how to refer to a Google map address from a web page. When Google Maps generates the URL ("link") for you, it hard-codes the current map display. Have the display zoomed to the desired level before requesting the link.

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Google Map

User Interfaces & the future

A jumping off point, tho rife w/ skeptical caveats and asides, are new breeds of UI's

E.g., see the YouTube playlist for novel UI's.

Insights from Web Design / Social networks

These tools and tips articles were not intended to be mini-treatises on communications styles, but they are.

Gladwell-esque

The book needs to be Gladwell-esque.

What does that mean?

1. David Leonhardt calls it a mixture of "social psychology, marketing, self-help."

Twitter as Dialect & Digital_Nation

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/blog/2009/05/the-future-of-twitter.html

• New dialects
• new communication frameworks
• compressed, more efficient business, personal life
• insularity's opposite