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Friday 2 June 2006

Addictive TV will be showing their reel at United London Tuesday 6th June. RSVP if you would like to attend.

This is a guest list only event so please email us if you would like to come along. Addictive will be presenting at 6.30pm.

United’s address:
The Griffin Building, 83 Clerkenwell Road [Google Map]. Telephone 020 7915 7575.

Note that Addictive are opening for the Chemical Brothers this weekend…

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The Big Picture: 2005

Friday 16 December 2005

We’ve covered a lot of news this year. Here we’ve created a single image which summarises 2005 on BST…

Using some tools more usually applied to social network analysis, and with which our resident geeks have been studying the spread of news in networks of blogs, we’ve created a topic map which shows the whole year’s main themes at a glance.

Click on the image to download a much more readable PDF version of our big picture of 2005.

It works like this:

All major topics/keywords for our stories over the last year are represented by circles.
Lines join topics which have appeared together in the same story, so you can see how the various threads we’ve been following join up.
The width of the lines relates to the frequency with which the topics they join have cropped up together in stories.
Topics which relate closely are closer together in the map.
The size of the circles representing the topics indicates roughly how ‘key’ those topics are to the year as a whole — the bigger the circle, the more radically different the look of the whole picture would be if that topic hadn’t cropped up.
Finally, the colours represent, in broad terms, how the various topics cluster into inter-related factions of related ideas.

Whew! That’s a lot of information. Respect to Tufte for inspiration.

Draw your own conclusions — we’re kind of surprised, actually, that ‘Apple’ is closely followed by ‘3G’ as key topics of the year: maybe a sign of things to come! We’re less surprised that ‘blogging’ shows up as important. Likewise ‘advertising’, God bless its tenacious little soul.

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