{"id":1131,"date":"2008-02-22T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/02\/a_little_vision_of_collective\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:50:11","slug":"a_little_vision_of_collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/a_little_vision_of_collective.php","title":{"rendered":"A little vision of collective meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanbraincloud.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Human Brain Cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/humancloud.gif\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Thanks, as ever, to <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/human_brain_cloud_network.html\">information aesthetics<\/a> for this link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanbraincloud.com\/\">an on-line visualization of collective thinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Brain Cloud describes itself as a &#8221;massively multiplayer word association game&#8221; that asks its visitors to enter words they immediately associate with provided words, and then maps the clusters of responses in a dynamic and visual way.<\/p>\n<p>Another cool Internet trifle, perhaps. But a lovely metaphor for how we all construct meaning and patterns in the world through our interactions with others. It&#8217;s Friday, after all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanbraincloud.com\/\">take a quick play break<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks, as ever, to information aesthetics for this link to an on-line visualization of collective thinking. The Human Brain Cloud describes itself as a &#8221;massively multiplayer word association game&#8221; that asks its visitors to enter words they immediately associate with provided words, and then maps the clusters of responses in a dynamic and visual way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}