Concept

Page en développement - page under developpement

An enviromment and tool to map your web ?
The Web is getting more and more important for a growing fraction of the people it is accessible for.

As Web users, we visit numerous pages and our navigation history is often locally stored in our browser logs thus creating a data set that contains a lot of valuable information, not only for ourselves but also for other users we might be willing to share this information with.

How can we best exploit this information? How can we give it a meaning and transform it into a knowledge that we could share with others?

Buzzaar is a tool and a web site that provide answers to such questions. It is free and available for all. Buzzaar users can interact with their browsing history, and transform it into meaningful, dynamic webmaps that intuitively and dynamically represent their interests and habits.

A webmap is an efficient representation of the web pages visited by a user. It can be easily modified and tailored to specific user needs. In particular, users can tag, filter, and sort the visualized data, and customise its appearance. Webmaps can be easily shared with friends and colleagues. They can be merged or projected into each other to identify their commonalities or differences, thus allowing their owners to better understand and benefit from the knowledge they contain.

The Buzzaar website also allows anyone to register to the Buzzaar network, within which users can share their webmaps and collaboratively build a common webmap representative of the user community as a whole. This common webmap provides a useful context to better interpret each user's individual webmap.

visualisation
The visualization of information is a meta language that contains the information as well as a discourse on this information; its representativeness (what is it represented, how and why). It is a visual experience and it transforms in a display the question of time and granularity of the given information that is a part of a network. It provides the user a possibility to interact with the displayed information, as well as a new kind of understanding (visually and sensitively) of an information and it s place within a network

BUZZ: The babbling voices of the bazaar
"Buzzaar" - a word we have created for this project comes from two words:"Buzz" & "Bazzar" "Buzzaar" is recalling both of these two worlds- world of buzz, gossip, sharing, collaborative knowledge, as well as a world of bazaar - a world of a permanent marketplace, where "goods" are exchanged, a place of "sale" of miscellaneous contributed articles to some common benefit, etc. "Buzz" is a constructive rumor, talk. It moves quickly and busily.

«a computer may have a centrally structured memory and processor (16), but a network of computers can be decentralized and exchange information based on a map. This map or "graph regulating the circulation of information is in a way the opposite of the hierarchical graph»

BAZAAR: The multiple re-combinant topologies of the Internet "«People bring their own ressources to the table and there is little or no need for a manager to `play defense' in the conventional sense.»(E.Raymond: The Cathedral and The Bazaar)"

The bazaar is not a mess. It is rather an almost - chaotic architecture that embed heterogeneity, multiplicity, and re-combinant fragments ( babbling voices) onto a never ending fluid and dynamic space. «[...]an anarchic space for tactical intervention in the surveillance and control society by making the principal means of control, the code, "visible" to the greatest number of subjects.[...]The bazar is a freespace for individual autonomy, a state prior to mediation, it is a metaphor for the spacialization of liberation, a space which forms and reforms whithout teological motivation»  (deterritorialization and re-territorializaiton, re-combination)

"«[...]The important point is that root-tree and canal-rhizome are not two opposed models: the first operates as a transcendent model and tracing, even if it engenders its own escapes; the second operates as an immanent process that overturns the model and outlines a map, even if it constitutes its own hierarchies, even if it gives rise to a despotic channel. [...] (20) » (Deleuze & Guattari, in rhizome, Thousand Plateaux)" «[...]''In a bazaar there is no maximum authority to control the process that are developed or to strictly plan what has to happen.

At the same time, participants roles can change continously (sellers can become clients) and with no outward indication.[...]''» Jordi Mas Hernandez, David megias Jimenez, jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona, Joaquin Seoane Pascual, Gregorio Robles in Introduction to Freesoftware