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Comment by Josh Reno on June 8, 2009 at 5:38pm

just please update it again when we hit 1000 strong, be interesting to see how it evolves

Comment by Cosimo Lupo on June 2, 2009 at 12:10am

Exactly! But I just liked the idea of an internal diversity and of openness towards the outside which are somewhat conveyed (to me, at least) by this sort of abstract patchwork of colours... Don't mind, we will think about a better solution!

Comment by Francine Barone on June 1, 2009 at 11:43pm

I think it might lose its meaning at 1.5cm ... I suppose it can also be seen as reinforcing the often arbitrary (and divisive?) nature of nation-state boundaries. What this image doesn't tell us is as interesting as what it does. Those big blocks of UK and US (and probably the others, too) are definitely more 'diverse' than they can lead us to believe.

As anthropologists, we're rarely in one place for too long anyway, and I don't think I have the patience to update it that often!

Comment by Cosimo Lupo on June 1, 2009 at 11:13pm

Why don't we use this as a logo for #OAC?! I'm serious!
I like because it is abstract and very colorful...
Maybe we should wait until it gets more homogeneously distributed?
Or another idea could be to update the logo periodically as the membership grows and change...

But perhaps, it would be too much "inter-national" instead of "trans-national".. I don't know.

Comment by Francine Barone on June 1, 2009 at 6:27pm

Oh, Ning is actually compatible with Google Analytics.

Comment by Francine Barone on June 1, 2009 at 6:12pm

Alas, I can't find any information on recording site statistics. Unless this gets hosted or redirected from a private domain, it looks like profile trawling is the only source of data.