The Spinning Beachball In My Brain

Famous science fiction quotes in graph form

I’m having more fun putting random stuff into graphs than I care to admit, but it’s my prerogative, and I can do what I want, so ha. In something of a Data Underload, special edition, I played with famous science fiction quotes for Sci Fi Wire. My favo…

Facebook Privacy ? Who Cares?

if you are in the media enough, you recognize that the media lives for the next headline. Facebook Privacy ? What a great headline.  We all care about privacy, right ?
Wrong.  Privacy is a boogie man for the media to play with. Unless you are in the …

Facebook privacy options untangledFlowingData

People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some information was forced into public view and partly because there are so many settings that figuring out what’s public and what’s private is confusing. Guilbert Gates of th…

Sharp busts out world’s first 3D HD camera for mobile devicesEngadget

World Bank “Open Data” Initiative

The World Bank has recently expanded public access to their datasets on a huge scale (many previously only available by subscription). You can view data by country or topic, create a map out of any indicator, download the raw data, and there’s even a…

Design for America: $40k Data Visualization Competition

Government information can be so boring and obtuse. Reams of data on spreadsheets and hundreds, even thousands of pages of legalese can unintentionally obscure the real, and beautiful meaning of public information. Hence, Sunlight Labs, a non-profit, …

Design for America: $40k Data Visualization Competition

Government information can be so boring and obtuse. Reams of data on spreadsheets and hundreds, even thousands of pages of legalese can unintentionally obscure the real, and beautiful meaning of public information. Hence, Sunlight Labs, a non-profit, …

The evolving role of media companies and gamingThe Cut Scene – Video Game Blog by Variety

Traditional media companies looking to profit off of the
video game industry may need to rethink their methods. A panel of industry
executives and analysts at the Digital Hollywood conference noted late Tuesday
that the old ways of making money from th…

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