NewsWhip – an Irish based News aggregation site – has created the superb infographic below, ranking news sites based on how many viral stories they produced during January 2012. The definition of a viral story is one getting at least 100 likes or shares (on Facebook) or 100 Tweets (on Twitter).
(via NewsWhip)
Web hosting company Nexcess have put together a flowchart explaining how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown process typically works.
From the ReadWriteWeb article:
When a site is perceived by a copyright owner to run afoul of the DMCA, those rights holders have the option of issuing a takedown request. From there, things can get complicated, or they can be resolved rather quickly. In some cases, legal battles can drag on for years if a site owner and a copyright owner don’t see eye to eye.
The Infographic flow chart highlights how the process can morph into long wielding repetitive affair depending on how communication between the parties goes.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
From a chance meeting at Standford University in 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin embarked on a fascinating journey. The evolution of the company they created, is charted through the interactive infographic below. It charts the humble beginnings of the search giant from a garage in Palo Alto to becoming a $200bn company serving billions of searches each day.
Created by Online PhD
(via onlinephd.org)
The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) recently released an informative Infographic entitled “The European Union’s Response to the Euro Crisis”. It provides and overview of many of the EU’s actions taken to date to tackle the crisis and provides an overview of some policies still under discussion e.g the Fiscal compact.
The infographic is fairly comprehensive in its presentation of data, which rather detracts from any narrative regarding the response to the crisis. Nevertheless, it represents a smorgasbord of policy actions, rules and ideas implemented over the last few years.
Nate Garvis has an thought provoking blogpost on infographics as a “new language for our new world”. In the post he examines the impact infographics can make in the construction of a good story – in terms of aggregating information to construct a narrative:
An infographic presents a visual landscape of the story being told. The language used in an infographic is nearly universal, as while not everyone can relate to numbers for instance, everyone with sight can interpret shapes and arrows and bubbles. This type of story construction is compelling, what with the stunning graphics and the stories within the story, but it also helps the readers (or viewers) understand the story better. In other words, an infographic is more than just a pretty picture – it is a narrative with context and as such it holds that much more power and impact.
He references a Fast Co Design article Why “Infographic Thinking” Is The Future, Not A Fad, in which visual designer Francesco Franchi, explains how technology is changing the language of design. He outlines his thoughts on “infographic thinking” and “visual journalism” as a narrative language – “representation plus interpretation to develop an idea”.
From the FastCo Design article:
He talks about “the nonlinearity of reading” an infographic, which is something that can set a true example of the form apart from its faddish imitators. Infographics aren’t like Powerpoint presentations — they don’t have to be one-dimensional. In the hands of a Fathom or a Felton, even a static infographic can feel immersive and interactive because of the way it offers multiple paths for discovering stories.
Francesco Franchi: On Visual Storytelling and New Languages in Journalism from Gestalten on Vimeo.
In the video above he also stresses the importance of content as a platform upon which ideas must rest:
If we do not have content we do not have design, You have to be informative, but at the same time entertain the reader.
To see more of Francesco Franchi’s work check click here.
Results from last year’s Pew Internet Study 2011.
(via dr4ward.com)
Next Big Sound – a startup that tracks the popularity of music – has released a report on the major trends and highlights of the online music industry in 2011.
The report looks at the overall consumption numbers, the top networks and their most popular artists along with the top 50 artists of 2011.
Some quick numbers from the report:
(via ReadWriteWeb)
Inspired by last year’s This American Life episode When Patents Attack!, Jason (Frugal Dad) created a superb infographic highlighting “some of the facts behind the patent industry and how it’s changed as software, technology, and the internet have developed at an incredible pace”.
Source: http://frugaldad.com
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