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Archive for May 2011
In Innovation Deep Dive, Lisa Strausfeld from Pentagram has contrasted the drivers and the impact of innovation of various countries by way of an interactive line ranking.
The visualization uses quite a large set of different datasets, ranging from …
We are all our own PR agents to a certain respect. What we say or how we act in public inevitably becomes part of how people view us—and people have long memories.
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Via the Map Room, news of a brand new satellite image taken today, after the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound. It’s by GeoEye, and the caption reads thus: This one-meter resolution image shows a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. … Continue reading →
A closeup of that photograph making the rounds of Obama and his team following the raid on Bin Laden’s compound in the Situation Room: (Click to enlarge) Sure enough, it is an aerial surveillance image of the compound. Also note … Continue reading →
As I listened to my young neighbors run around the parking lot chanting, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” I glanced at my Twitter feed, and it showed a burst of similar sentiment. On the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, Twitter recorded the highest sustained rate of tweets ever, at an average of 3,000 per second. The above [...]
In “This is Your Brain on the Internet,” we grappled a lot with the anonymous aspect of the Internet.
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As I begin to the write this, essentially the entire world has just found out the Osama Bin Laden is dead. It is 10:57, and President Obama was set to make an announcement at 10:30.
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UPDATE: A new post: GeoEye publishes post-raid satellite image of Bin Laden compound Via a comment left under the previous post here on Ogle Earth, a pointer to just-released high-resolution satellite imagery of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, published by DigitalGlobe … Continue reading →
Michigan, with its palm-shaped Lower Peninsula, is the hotbed of hand-based cartography. Or so you would think (1). Turns out California is not doing too bad either in the field of palmate (2) mappery. An example posted earlier on this blog descr…
In as early as the sixth century A.D., a primitive version of the game we know as chess sprouted in India.
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UPDATE: Scroll to the end of the article to see the final confirmed location of the compound. UPDATE 2: A new post: 2011 DigitalGlobe imagery of Bin Laden compound, now on Google Earth UPDATE 3: More posts: GeoEye publishes post-raid … Continue reading →
I can’t believe it’s already May. This year is whizzing by. During these past couple of months, there’s been good progress on the book, and we just passed 50k subscribers. Pretty cool. Thank you for spreading the word about FlowingData, sharing on Twitter and Facebook, etc, and passing interesting links my way. I appreciate it. [...]
