Many Eyes does the LibraryThing
Many Eyes, a very shiny new visualization site* is featuring a visualization of LibraryThing's top 50 books Harry Potter is Freaking Popular. Yes he is.It might be interesting to chart other LibraryThing data in Many Eyes. I've only scratched the surface of it, but it looks quite powerful.
*In alpha, which is the new beta.
Hat tip: David Weinberger.
posted by Tim at 10:36 PM
11 Comments:
you are a blogging crazy man!
All of this is so fun, I'm really enjoying all the new things to check out around here! :)
My work computer hates Java...so I'll have to wait until I get hom to check out the fun of Many Eyes. :D
Not Many Eyes-related, but that gave me an idea to make another 'visualization'.
That's the Shroud of Turin...
Wait. That was Tim. As is this.
oh boy. Now they are sharing personalities. ;)
Looks like it's time for another LT outing! Get those staffers out of the office! :)
Hi,
Nothing to do with this but did you hear that BBC radio 4 featured Library Thing on Open Book on Feb 18? Here's the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/openbook/openbook_20070218.shtml
Not all good news as the Independent's literary critic, Suzy Feay did not like LT one little bit. Good grief, she was irritating and patronising and I used to quite like her reviews too. You might like to have a listen though.
Anne,
Interesting to see that BBC did a (negative) review of LT. For those of us who don't wish to expose our computers to the loveliness of RealPlayer, which BBC seems to require, what are her main complaints about LT?
Well for RealPlayer haters (and the modern versions aren't like the old versions with phone-home software) there is always RealAlternative.
Anyway, on to the bit on Open Book. Suzy Feay (a self-confessed technophobe) was pretty confused by the whole thing. She didn't understand the social aspect, the need for a catalogue, or pretty much anything. She found the site confusing and drab but liked readysteadybook.com (which isn't addressing the same needs, and which I find horribly boring to look at).
The more tech-literate guy who also looked at the site - Jason Jenkins - however liked LT and didn't like readysteadybook.com. He gave an example of getting good recommendations based on him owning His Dark Materials.
So all in all it was pretty much a mixed bag.
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Pechmerle,
The loveliness of RealPlayer I was referring to is its tendency to grip into your system a bit deeper than I'd like. I dislike the flashing news icon in the system tray and various other minor complaints about it. Perhaps it is now better, ans andyl says above.
The larger issue for me is I don't want to have to install Flash, Java, Shockwave, Windows Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime (trying not to get iTunes bundles with it), and maybe even WinAmp, as all these products need you to keep track of them and update them periodically as they have security holes periodically. I'd prefer to have one media player and just worry about that one, not many.
Which brings me to the real loveliness of books (which this site is about!): not having to worry about any of that.
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