What Matters Most: Documentation

Published on Mar. 19, 2009
by Kyle

I was finally able to get some documentation of my What Matters Most installation edited. I even got it posted on my portfolio site here. To describe the project, I’ll quote myself:

“What Matters Most is a real-time news aggregate built on my custom multi-touch hardware. The applications aims to determine what media people truly care about. Polling stories from the popular aggregate service Digg, content is displayed hierarchically starting at the top-level container topic. Navigating allows the user to drill-down into topics, categories and stories, as well as the surrounding user conversations. ”

Unfortunately, all of the documentation is from its first installation at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The computer running that installation was a three year-old MacMini and had difficulty supporting the applications cpu needs, particularly the scattered conversations. In preparation for Make: Day last week, I made several improvements to the application; resolving lag, adding comment panning, and allowing an alternate organized conversation view mode. It was well-received, I talked to so many people my voice was sore for the rest of the day.

To view video of the project check it out at workofkylephillips.com.