Real-​​World Objects as Infographics

via fast company. I LOL’d but then realised literacy of infographics and data visu­al­isa­tions has become main­stream. Which makes me even happier. I do hope that that the pilot and crew don’t need to consult the diagrams in order to get their plans into the sky. The airline is Kulala, based in South Africa, with the

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Taming the Spirit of the Times

On most news organ­isa­tions’ websites, you’ll find a widget called ‘most read’, ‘most shared’ or ‘most com­mented’, possibly all three. The Guardian’s Zeitgeist exper­i­ment suggests an inter­esting alternative.

Typically, the content found in the most-​​​​X sections provides a salutary — if depressing — reminder of humanity’s baseness and stupidity.

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yet another self-​​serving corporate blog

In what may be a PR mas­ter­piece, the new Yahoo! cor­porate blog is nothing but self-​​​​effacing. My headline is theirs for their virgin entry. “Oh, yes, we’re going cor­porate. But please don’t hold that against us. It’s a good thing, really,” they go on to say.

Signs are that this will be an inter­esting read. Major

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