Web Trend Map 4

Information Architects Japan

posted by Malcolm Garrett
on 10 April 2009

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    cultural, earth, entertainment, fun, global, google, illustration, image, information, Internet, Map, mapping, network, trends, update, virtual, web, world

    Latest version of the web trend map. It makes for interesting viewing.

    You'll have to follow the link to see it in detail. But if you're very very quick you still have chance to offer your comments before it's published.


    http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/

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    posted by Matt Cooper
    on 15 April 2009

    What does it all mean?

    without wanting to sound cynical about the whole process, what does this tell me?

    It looks very nice, and seems to be roughly logical - although there are some tenuous points on the map - but i'm not sure what to take from it.

    maybe i'm just in a bad mood today.

    posted by Malcolm Garrett
    on 17 April 2009

    well exactly

    I didn't say it was actual useful, just interesting. It's interesting that someone should bother going to all that trouble, but to what end?

    posted by Francesca Granato
    on 23 April 2009

    Whats the use?

    The people behind this Web Trend Map were obviously compelled to produce this painstaking work which, as has been suggested, has no real 'use'. That is if you consider personal expression, capturing our times, understanding the environment in which we live useless.

    For me this map brings to mind The Great Bear, by artist, Simon Patterson. He reproduced the London Underground map and he replaced station names with the names of philosophers, film stars, politicians and other celebrities.

    It is helpful to see the Web Trend Map in the same context as The Great Bear, because if we can see the Web Trend Map as 'art' we can cease to ask questions like 'is this useful?'. When something is artistic it doesn't have to be useful.

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