Reason Number 169,012 why the Internet is TEH AWESOME is shared visualizations. One very clever person can put together a neat graphic that explains a very complex subject in that one-picture-worth-a-thousand-words way and share it with everyone. Implementing new power technologies like wind and solar that are not tied to always on generation facilitie...
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Infoporn on the death of news on paper. Via Mint.com Check out the revenue sources in the bottom right. The key question becomes how do you design a business where the current 7% of revenues that comes from online sources becomes 80% of revenues? Clearly that amount needs to grow through higher ad rates,...
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The New York Times is running a multi-part series, called Toxic Waters regarding the increasingly poor quality of drinking water across the US. This, despite the Clean Water Act. One of the key points in the series is that despite many thousands of documented violations of state and federal clean water regulations every year,...
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post below is a chart showing Fox News viewership alongside GOP approval (as measured by CBS/NYT polling). Per Gawker’s post: But while cable news is niche, politics is mass. The chart above shows GOP party approval in as reported by New York Times/CBS in national polls going back to...
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From The Economist, a very well done and easily understood graphic on the history of the American economy and the fundamental instability of our consumer-oriented growth from the 1980′s to 2007. Rebalancing The Economy
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