{"id":850,"date":"2005-08-07T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2005-08-07T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T17:59:13","slug":"avoid-rankism-with-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Avoid rankism with clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Mary Hodder&#8217;s concern about &#8220;rankism&#8221;&#8230; I wonder whether rank is the wrong presentation, and clouds are right.<br \/>\nA cloud presentation would primarily show the communities that a blogger is in. It may show secondarily the influence strength within that community, but that should be secondary in the presentation.<br \/>\nA cloud presentation might enable navigation along topic axis. For my blog, you&#8217;d be able to traverse to social software and austin clouds.<br \/>\nInfluence would be calculated within the cloud. So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsky.com\">Jon Lebkowsky<\/a> would have separately-calculated influence level within <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbloggers.org\">Austin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.org\">environmental<\/a> blog communities.<br \/>\nPerhaps the presentation would allow the browser to traverse communities. One could find &#8220;blogher&#8221;, and traverse to the &#8220;sepia mutiny&#8221; south asia community.<br \/>\nTime would be an interesting factor. Perhaps one could view the cloud by week, month, or year. See how participation ebbs and flows over time. A longer time frame would be interesting &#8212; I wonder whether other bloggers are &#8220;bursty&#8221; in their topics of interest. A long time frame would catch people who come and go.<br \/>\nIn sum, a cloud presentation would avoid the worst of rankism, because it would focus on the community more than the individual, and allow a browser to traverse communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Mary Hodder&#8217;s concern about &#8220;rankism&#8221;&#8230; I wonder whether rank is the wrong presentation, and clouds are right. A cloud presentation would primarily show the communities that a blogger is in. It may show secondarily the influence strength within that community, but that should be secondary in the presentation. A cloud presentation might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avoid rankism with clouds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-dI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}