21 Jul 2011

My Twitter behaviour in an infographic

This auto-generated infographic correctly identifies me as a foodie. But curious as to why that particular attribute emerges from my tweeting rather than any of my other obsessions.

 

 

6 Jul 2011

Steve Bell on Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and phone hacking | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

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Bell at his brutal best.

11 May 2011

AlertNet's coverage of sexual violence in Haiti

28 Apr 2011

Economist's Royal Wedding Chart of the Day shows how Kate and Will indicative of wider trends in Britain

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Kate is 29, Will is 28, which makes her bang in line with the average age of a first-time British bride and him two-and-a-bit years younger than first-time grooms. Since I got married in 1989, the average age of first-time grooms has shot up by just over five years, slightly less for first-time brides. That's a huge jump and the Economist cites social and economic changes like the sexual revolution and the changing role of women in the workplace as principle causes. But a similar jump has happened in life expectancy over the same period and I wonder whether this might also be a factor -- why rush into marriage if you've got more time to play with?

27 Apr 2011

First Past the Post gives you coffee when 70 pct would rather go down the pub (ht @felixsalmon)

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At last some humour in the referendum over AV

20 Apr 2011

How #FollowFriday is SUPPOSED to work - The Oatmeal

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Very funny. I'm now following The Oatmeal but have never used #ff and now probably never will.

10 Apr 2011

INFOGRAPHIC: What do Britain's news organisations tweet about? (TweetMinster analysis)

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Fascinating analysis of what British journalists on Twitter did in February. Did the FT really not see anything from David Cameron worth tweeting about?

14 Mar 2011

Clever conversion of graphic on Arab unrest into build-your own revolutionary index by the Economist

What's really nice about the Economist's approach is that they encourage users to share the graphic with an easy-to-used embed code snippet.

2 Mar 2011

The world map of social networks

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Facebook dominates the social networking world but it's interesting that of the biggest emerging economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- all but India have dominant indigenous social networks. That could be a language thing. But that might argue for a stronger Spanish contender. And there is none.

28 Feb 2011

CARTOON: The modern workplace's benefit package (h/t @tweetsmarter):

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