I’ve had this picture of my Twitter social network in my head. Chris Brogan’s Twitter Packs made me think about it again.
Social networking loop de loops diagram 1.
Social networking loop de loops diagram 2.
I imagine that a more sophisticated, streamlined social networking experience will allow you to “mute” loops at will – aiding focus on a noisy day. It would also allow certain loops to sit behind a firewall for privacy, yet remain connected to the rest of the circuit.
Hey, Jas! Have you seen http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/the-social-medi.html
Very interesting!
hi Stephen
thanks and yes Michele has a great blog!
Seriously loving your ” Social networking loop de loops diagram 2″ – it ‘ties’ it all together beautifully.
This will become about the have and the have knots (Instead of the have nots in case people think its my spelling) Ironic that the knot in this case it good.
Wow. You know what’s weird? I’ve had the notion of posting pictures I drew with a pen on my blog lately, and here you are doing it and referencing something I started. You’re in my head!!!! : )
Jaz.
what i love about this post is ur use of two simple diagrams to convey complex ideas and going’s-on in the web space. good stuff! kind of like a matisse feel to it hey, the complexity of portraying the complex in simple form; hard thing to do, takes yrs of practice.
that’s what i love about this post, above and beyond the point ur making…which is great too…of course <3
this is what I enjoy about blogging some days.
You flip open your head, tip it out onto a page, scan it, share it – you get some lovely feedback from @Allison, then @epredator makes up a funny line about “the haves and the have knots” :p when… @chrisbrogan drops by (thanks) and tells you he has been thinking of sharing his own “head flip & tip moments” before your own husband compares you to Matisse!!
Sometimes it’s nice to get back to pen on paper.
As a boy, I was exposed to the ‘New Math’, which introduced me to Mathematical
Sets, with numbers organized in overlapping circles in a 2-D representation of the numerical world. Your loops and swirls seems to combine that with a sort of double helix to build a 2.0 bio-math version of social networking in this current incarnation of sets.
We celebrate the loops and spirals we have in common, and wonder at those outside our experience. A truly new community in these strange days on Earth. I have found colleagues I may never meet in the classical world, but I learn and share thoughts with them as if we are old friends.
wow you mean I can say that I create double helix 2.0 bio math social networking set incarnations? Cool! (Never thought I could say I did anything mathematical!)
Yes it is a truly new community in strange days. Amazing, curious and interwoven lives. Thanks Barry.