I'm a member of the copyleft FAT Lab and lead R&D at Rocketboom, where I've created Know Your Meme and Mag.ma
I also teach the Internet Famous Class at Parsons, where your grade depends on your online popularity.
Selected press:
NBC,
TIME [2],
CurrentTV,
Gawker,
Mashable,
TechCrunch,
BuzzFeed
,
ArtNews
posts tagged 'processing'
A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. People who edit a lot drift toward the center. Best watched full screen in HD on Vimeo
Made using code_swarm and my new Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby), which uses the Wikipedia API to convert page edit histories into the code_swarm activity log format. There’s also experimental support for visualizing individual users’ contributions.
For info on how to generate your own wikiswarms read on…