Vizuwords - Graphical Dictionary

Vizuwords is a online graphic dictionary that associates words using network diagrams. You can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

Ants - Learning from emergent organization.

What can we learn from the way in which ants organize themselves? This has been the topic of many article and books (such as Emergence). And now has been simulated in SecondLife. Click on the YouTube video below to view this simulation and while you are watching, think about other educational simulations that could be scripted like this.

I have also included a link to a article written and presented at the International Lean Construction Conference titled, "Swarm intelligence and ant colony approach - can they be applied in optimizing construction processes"? This article provides an example of how practitioners are attempting to understand this theory and apply it. Click on the "ant" below to gain access to this PowerPoint presentation.

Working on the edge.

There is a great post on FASTForward Blog titled, "what is really next." The idea that the next great piece of software will be one that allows the user to invent and view the world through their eyes is great.

Along these lines I have been working with IBM's Many Eyes. This Tool is easy to use and allows users to visualize their data. This is one of these applications - "get out of the way" when people on the edge are in control of the data radical innovation will occur.

I have provided a few examples of Many Eyes - networks below. Click on the images below to view the network graphs.