New Direction

I have been thinking a lot today about how I could make a slang tracker, based on feeds from Twitter and other social media. This would let me track expressions as memes, so I could see where and when they originated, and how they spread – and maybe visualize it somehow. Obviously within the timeframe, this is not happening. That however, lead me onto the idea of a website where people could add their own slang, and add their own interpretations to other peoples slang. I thought that would be a good idea to both keep track of current memes, as well as keeping them alive. I like the idea of associations to a certain word, or image, and how people perceive differently. This again let me onto the idea of letting people tag something freely, after being exposed to say an image or a word. It would be sort of a pictionary, where I would set the context. Some ideas so far are:

• Flags/Nationality
• Images/Photos from Flickr
• People (leaders perhaps, or icons)
• Institutions (universities for instance)
• Symbols (religious etc)
• Slang

A tag cloud, or something similar will be created for each image, where the size of each tag will be determined by it’s frequency. And maybe something could be visualized further based on this information – if I went with flags, the flags could be ‘redesigned’ based on the tags to create a more accurate representation of the nation.

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