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Debtris (Visualization of Debt)

23 February 2011
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How does the cost of the Iraq War compare to US credit card debt? What about the worldwide costs of the financial crises from the late 2000s to the present? How do those costs compare to African nations’ debts?
Information is Beautiful provides those answers and more in his first animation, entitled “Debtris“. I have embedded [...]

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Mr. Bean Visits a Library

15 February 2011

Mr. Bean visits a library and tries to trace images in an old book.

I would call this an example of how not to tame data and information (e.g., by destroying it)!

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Bridgestone “Reply All” Super Bowl XLV Commercial

11 February 2011

Loved it #2.

Because you know you’ve done it, and you know you’d have done what he did if you could’ve.

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Motorola “Hoodies” Super Bowl XLV Commercial

7 February 2011

Loved it.

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What Does a Librarian Do?

21 January 2011
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Have you ever wanted to be a librarian? Have you ever wondered what a librarian does?
This Vocational Guidance Film from 1947 describes what a librarian does, and what the requirements are to be a librarian. LIbrarianship is about managing, accessing, storing, and retrieving information. That information may be stored in a book, database or other [...]

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MLK Holiday: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

17 January 2011
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How would you visually represent a landmark speech in US history?
I have posted a video of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech below, in order to mark the holiday that honors him. The speech was given on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and [...]

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World Population: 7 Billion by the End of 2011

13 January 2011
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Seven billion people. That’s how many people the earth will carry by the end of 2011. I cannot imagine that many people, yet if we all stood shoulder to shoulder, apparently we could all stand in the area of the City of Los Angeles.
National Geographic Magazine has taken on the task of addressing the [...]

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The Digital Nativity or Christmas 2.0

4 January 2011
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The video below tells the story of the Nativity using social media. ViralVideosNr1 uses “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, [and] Amazon” to tell the story of the birth of Jesus.
For example, as Irina Slutsky at AdAge writes, “after Mary gets a text message on her iPhone from the Archangel Gabriel [...]

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Google Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review

30 December 2010
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Google employees put together this video of the struggles, achievements, deaths, milestones, deaths, heroes, and other major “etceteras” that made 2010 the year it was. I hope you enjoy this review of the past year.

Is there any information you would add to or subtract from this montage of 2010?

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YouTube Rewind 2010: Year in Review

29 December 2010
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What were the most popular videos on YouTube in 2010 across all categories? Employees at YouTube put together this compilation of the greatest hits of 2010, below.
You can watch all of the top 10 videos, as well as other video hits of the year, via a timeline of the year 2010 at youtube.com/rewind. The [...]

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