Drifting neighborhoods
Last.fm is one of very few online services that i could motivate some of my friends to actually use over a prolonged period of time. Some time last week my two flatmates and i drifted into the same neighborhood, and quite closely so. It only took a few days to drift apart again. We didn’t just move apart slightly, we totally dropped off each other’s radar and just as easily might get back on. This wasn’t the consequence of switching attention on a whim (internet anxiety disorder, anyone?), but a wee unconscious change of habits in our daily routine. Especially in this setting of meatspace proximity i wonder how these drifting neighborhoods, laid out in plain sight through statistical analysis, reflect tiny day2day changes in our relationships, tastetribeish if you will (so a word!). Are these drifting neighborhoods, virtual proximity in flux, telling of something more? I bet you could plot some pretty interesting network diagrams and do some great research and analysis with last.fm’s datapool.
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