Friday, 21 May 2010

Dandelions and Viruses

Last week, Betsy Aoki tweeted:

Sick visual around how content is passed around - organic=dandelion, and then the spam marketing campaign (cancery clumps) #w2eless than a minute ago via webBetsy Aoki
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This intrigued me, as I had used Dandelion and Virus analogies talking about the social web 2 years ago and used these pictures:

Organic dandelion versus virus



And here's Paul Yiu's slide Betsy was looking at (number 8 in this deck):
dandelion-virus


Looks like a case of metaphors converging.
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1 comment:

  1. heather goldJuly 25, 2010 2:30 pm

    ...or some kind of fractal truth that may show up in still more places.

    Unrestricted growth = cancer, yes? Doesn't it make sense that business "logic" that is similar would move/visualise in a similar way?

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