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Convened group of visualization experts to review presentation of selectricity voting results.
Attendees included: Alyssa, Mako, Yair, Seth, Anita, and Emily.
Next Meeting: 07.03 || 8pm || Acetarium

Priorities:

1. Tthe relationship between candidates
2. The relationship between voting methods

Points to note:

1. no verb, don't know what does what
2. has similarities to a social network graph
1. pivotgraph
2. many eyes
3. prefuse
4. flare
5. visual thesaurus

Opinion Notes from: Sharing the News: Reaching Students, training citizens
"A one day workshop for teachers, advisors, professors, editors, bloggers, and citizen journalists"
Saturday, June 28th, U-Mass-Lowell
http://dbs.hosting.crocker.com/wiki/index.php/Sharing

Takeaway: Rich communities will be able to buy reporters. (note 1). The truth of journalism and science forgets philosophy (note 2). The battle continues over fair use (note 3). And we're all trying to figure out how the trained and untrained, the local and global fit together (conclusion).

Reporter's subjectivity: Operationally exhausted from thesis. Notes organized by personal interest, and cr
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1) Representative Journalism--the Northfield, Minnesota Experiment