Great examples! <br />
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"Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working <br />
at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. Her work is smart, finely detailed, <br />
elegant, witty, inventive, informative. A fierce researcher and reporter, she writes <br />
gracefully and precisely. Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens <br />
to use graphs, tables, and illustrations--as well as words--to explain the news. <br />
Her best work is the best work in news graphics."

Browser market share infographic "reminiscent of the Firefox logo, ...freaky in the best possible way" says @bjepson

""Last month when I was at the annual Medinge summer meeting, I talked to Patrick Harris about technology use. He told me how his 17yr old daughter refers to the whole category of internet-enabled music, video, info or text devices we now use with just one word: "Screens." Somehow this remark has stuck with me. This is not just a teenagers indifferent throw away description of the different hight-tech devices we surround ourselves with. It's a succinct description of what these devices give us, a window on our information.""

at whoishostingthis.com

"handy 28-pager from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reminds the American people that, thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (which I have blogged about here and here), the government is totally in charge of your yard sale: This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets. Selling old kids books, anything with metal, paint, or plastic that a kid might use, old clothes or shoes with metal components that a kid might wear? You know, any of the stuff people routinely sell at yard sales? Technically, you could be on the hook for thousands of dollars worth of fines."

Usability book: "When we’re creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading our finely crafted text, figuring out how we’ve organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click. What they actually do most of the time (if we’re lucky) is glance at each new page, scan some of the text, and click on the first link that catches their interest or vaguely resembles the thing they’re looking for. There are usually large parts of the page that they don’t even look at. We’re thinking “great literature” (or at least “product brochure”), while the user’s reality is much closer to “billboard going by at 60 miles an hour.”

"About a year ago the United Nations announced UNdata, a way to disseminate data stretched out across 22 United Nations databases through one central application. While UNdata houses 66 million records, it's tough to get a sense of what's going on without a visual representation. Progress is an effort to make this world data visible. More than anything though, it was a chance for me to mess around with some data."

"Informing is not the same as delivering information. Inform is derived from the verb to form. When you inform me, you form me. You enlarge that which makes me most human: what I know. I am, to some degree, authored by you.   What we call "authority" is the right we give others to author us, to enlarge us.   The human need to increase what we know, and to help each other do the same, is what the Net at its best is all about. Yeah, it's about other things. But it needs to be respected as an accessory to our humanity. And terms like "social media", forgive me, don't do that. (At least not for me.)"

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem

"One reason most media companies suspended normal business practices online, such as seeking subscription revenues, was a misinterpretation of one of the most powerful observations of the Information Age. When author Stewart Brand coined the expression “Information wants to be free,” he focused on how technology makes it cheap and easy to communicate and share knowledge. But the rest of his quote is rarely noticed. This says, “Information also wants to be expensive.” The right information in today’s complex economy and society can make a huge difference in our professional and personal lives. Not having this information can also make a big difference, especially if someone else does have it. And for valuable information, online is a great new way for it to be valued."

"a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc." see TED video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html

We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems.

Finally, someone's starting to provide the feedback we need... "Drivers can download the free Eco Drive software from the Internet to their computer and plug in any normal USB drive. Drivers then plug the prepped USB drive into their car's Blue&Me system and it will automatically start collecting data on the car."

"If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately compelling strategy: reduce the federal role in presenting important government information to citizens. Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility. "

excellent overview of why Google's business is a bit unlike any other's.

having lost its actual centrality some time ago, the literary world is now losing its normative hold on culture as well.

i'm looking forward to lots of innovation in the signal/noise/attention space in NEAR future

The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements.

"the web is having a profound impact on how we conceptualise, seek, evaluate and use information"

nice overview of one persons experience customizing their n810

Information is going to be like money. And we’re going to move it around like money. [We already are.] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks.

Sociology and biology are curiously akin

Using a prayer book or an iPod habituates an individual into a mode of being that links the emotions to a corporate identity that is both omnipresent and invisible.

The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment.

''Everyone thought that McLuhan was talking about TV, but what he was really talking about was the Internet -- two decades before it appeared,''

This basic right warrants in this respect the capacity of the individual to determine in principle the disclosure and use of his/her personal data. Limitations to this informational self-determination are allowed only in case of overriding public interest

Want a low-maintenance, ecologically friendly landscape? Chemical free? Want to do it yourself?

Differences between print and digital design Presentation made at the AIGA National Design Conference in Denver, CO on 13 Oct 2007

Someday some of the most important information on earth will be information that is NOT connected to the global internet.

"The only sustainable value you bring to an organization is what you show and teach and inspire in other people you work with."

Digital version of the "Book on the Book" in PDF format

Because most activities offering a good return on investment require some rule-breaking--some challenge to assumptions, some paradigm shift--everyone looks for experts who can manipulate current practice nimbly and see beyond current practice.

Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.

the LA Fire Dept. is using Twitter to give instant notifications of fires it’s responding to (oh, did I mention that’s in addition to its blog, LAFD_ALERT service, Flickr Photo Gallery and YouTube Channel

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that

In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Simply put, everything is suddenly miscellaneous.

What baseball teams are spending their money well, and how does it change over the course of the season?

increased connectivity in the 18th century - through scientific journals, postal mail, the advent of the encyclopedia and other reference works - is an increased connection between two different types of knowledge, “propositional” and “prescriptive

an impressive complete family tree compiled for about 4,000 mammal species showing how different groups, such as primates & rodents, are related & when they diverged. the so-called "Supertree" visualization is a new way of showing all the mammal species o

What’s been your best experience working at this company? When do you have the most fun at work ? Who do you enjoy working with the most here? What do you like about them? Which manager do you admire the most in this company? What do you admire about t

performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs

The following six maps deal with an array of major current world issues, from the serious to the seriously frivolous.

Clover is a better lawn than grass is. It requires less water, requires less mowing, and it requires no fertilization; ever.

We have built a database of some of the questions sent in to the Oxford Word and Language Service team, so it is likely that if your question is a fairly broad one on grammar, usage, or words then it will be answered here. Simply choose a category and the