Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kate Hollenbach A data visualization exploring the changes that take place on Wikipedia by a single software bot.Gizmodo, the technology blog, has a fascinating series this week about memory. Titled Memory [Forever], the blog takes a look at the topic from multiple angles, including memory and our brains, how the Internet remembers and the memory inside computers.
The image above, from the series, is a result of a visualization using the the Web site Many Eyes, a product from the I.B.M. Watson Research Center in Cambridge. Each color illustrates a change to pages on the Web site Wikipedia. For this visualization, the I.B.M. researchers followed the changes by an individual software bot on the Web site.
After the jump is a list of some of the most interesting posts in the series:
The Right Hard Drive for You A breakdown of which type of hard drive to purchase in today’s computing market.
What Happens (Online) When We Die: Twitter An exploration of our tweets and status updates online, and what happens as we continue to eulogize our lives in the cloud.
This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft’s Secret Stealth Data Centers Gizmodo takes a peak inside Microsoft’s immense 700,000-square-foot data center.
Photographic Memory (in Pill Form) One day, in the not too distant future, you may be able to take a pill to remember, or forget.
Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drive For those who want to completely erase a hard drive, it’s not as simple as emptying the trash.
Raiding Eternity A story about death, cloud computing and the importance of hard drive backups.
