February 2010
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January 2010
38 posts
Alex Lundry Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
– Muriel Rukeyser
Most of us learn history from books, but I think that it is physical objects -...
– Neil MacGregor, A History of the World
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When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of “open” is “theirs.
– David Weinberger on the nature of openness.
Technology, increasingly, makes us all witnesses to crises. And yet, only those...
– Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Journalists covering disasters feel “ghoulish and intrusive”, but in bearing witness they amplify the conditions borne by victims and relief workers.
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