"In our personal lives we tend to optimize for one of two things: input or output. Reading or writing. Consuming or creating. The environment we live in – the prevailing culture – by default is optimized for consumption."

"Once it is not everything, it can be merely something."

Introducing the mesofact. from The Boston Globe.

"At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below." from NYT.

"'The frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions.'" from The Economist.

"Right now, there's way too much stuff and far too little information about that stuff. Sounds like an opportunity."

Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. from Information is Beautiful.

a creative collective specializing in map, icon, and information design.

making science user-friendly

a home for collecting and communicating your daily data.

the emerging news ecosystem. by steven johnson.

agnotology, the study of culturally constructed ignorance. from wired.

from flowing data.

zoetrope and access to temporal information. from technology review.

from technology populism to IT ecosystems. from readwriteweb.

from the new york review of books.

a guide to semantic technologies.

contemporary american culture through the austere lens of statistics.

the shift the web enables.

"Collocation, Differentiation, Completeness, Information scent, Bounded horizons, Accessibility, Multiple access paths, Appropriate structure, Consistency, Audience-relevance, Currency." from Boxes and Arrows.