Might want to check out Warren Sack's "Conversation Map" at
http://www.media.mit.edu/~wsack/CM/index.html, as well. I'm also working
on mapping content over networks (political and technical keywords over
hyperlinked network surrounding Slashdot) and representing this
information as topics over terrains. Still very preliminary work,
but hoping to have something concrete finished by mid-June.
Alex
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Danyel Fisher wrote:
> There's a small group of us who have done some
> work with visualizing email flows & conversation
> threads.
>
> Published work available is from
> Marc Smith (http://netscan.research.microsoft.com)
> and Brian Butler (who seems to have temporarily
> fallen off the net, but is a professor at
> U Pittsburgh).
>
> Also check out the work done by Judith Donath
> & her team at MIT media lab. One sample article
> is online at
> http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/donath.html
> as well as her home page
> http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Judith
>
> I'd also be willing to talk--off the list--about
> other work that I and others have done with
> capturing email headers, and some of the
> technical and social issues involved.
>
> Danyel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Discussing ways of mapping and visualising Internet infrastructure
> > and Web space [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> > steve
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 1:54 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: mapping mail flurries
> >
> >
> > So <tongue-in-cheek> anyone got any good tools for mapping
> > the structure of mail storms caused by misunderstandings about
> > list manager software?
> >
> > I'd bet that there are patterns recognizeable in the flow of
> > mail traffic even without modeling the remailer specifically.
> >
> > With *more* seriousness, what work has been done in modeling
> > e-mail traffic at the header level? Anyone have references?
> >
> > My interest in general is about mapping abstract information
> > spaces... graph-structured spaces in particular.
> >
> >
> > - Steve
> >
>
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