Finding Common Ground

The Literature Mapping site is really cool! At first glance it might seem bland, but go ahead and give it a try. I think you will quickly see that the literature mapping site could be really useful in class. Enter an author name and click the continue button. An author cloud will appear and authors that are similar will populate the screen and move around. The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both of them. Then you can click on other names and see their cloud.

I do not know for sure how the connections are determined, but even the use of this site to spark discussion about literature would be useful in a classroom.

I dug down (or back) a bit to learn that the literature map site leads back to Gnod. Here you can do a similar search for movies, music and even people!  From the site:

Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and ‘talking’ to everyone who comes along. Gnods intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn ‘understanding’ its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don’t know about.

I continue to be amazed by what people are able to do…

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