From Kosovo to the Middle East: risky unilateral action

Unilateral declarations have played a central role in Israeli politics over the past years. Israel’s withdrawals from both the south of Lebanon and the Gaza strip have been controversial in the region’s politics. On the one hand, Israeli leaders were awarded by major support both internally and internationally, resulting from withdrawal. However, Israel is still [...]

visualizing online comment spaces

How do you capture the essence of a conversation online? How can we visualize chats and forums? How can user generated content that usually follows news articles and blog posts take a more substantial role in the online conversation?

I am fascinated by the conversations formed in the comment spaces around articles and blogs. [...]

Cyberwars in the Middle East :: facebook, google earth, wikipedia and flickr

The municipality of Kiryat-Yam decided to sue Google for slander last week, after many complaints from its residents over false information presented in the Google maps application. The municipality claims that the false information in Google’s software harms the city’s image within the general public in Israel and worldwide.

The Google Earth software claims Kiryat [...]

Losing Hope

When the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that entering West Berlin would be permitted, crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were [...]

Visualization of User-Generated Comments on US Elections

Here’s a glimpse of a work-in-progress. A little project I’m working on (check out the live version) that takes user-generated comments from the LA-times Campaign ’08 page into a visualization powered by processing. It looks something like this:

The background red/blue colors are directly correlated to the text => the more written about the democrats, [...]