Insights and ideas on The Future of Money
New media is still media, guys!
On straightening out a Cooks Source editor on the factiness of web content copyright… uh… rights.
Taking Down Pseudoscience, One Robo-Tweet At A Time →
Twitter chatbot @AI_AGW, a program whose mission is to chase around the Twitterverse hunting out the usual tired suspects of pseudoscience, anti-science, and dim “skepticism,” and automatically argue them down with actual facts.
You Have No Idea How Big Africa Really Is (But This Map Does)
It’s about 11.7 million square miles, which is really big—big enough to fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and much of Europe within its borders. And that’s precisely what Kai Krause did with this inventive map, “The True Size of Africa,” which he describes as his contribution to “the fight against rampant Immappacy.”
Infographic fans pay attention!
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
What I notice about advertising lately is how incredibly little attention I pay to most of it, and how relatively little it influences my purchasing patterns. […] I think I’ve turned into my own universe of advertising and consumption.
If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill →
See what the BP Oil Spill would look like if it happened in your backyard.
