Over in Geneva, the EBU Radio News Conference 2010 is underway, and I’m watching from afar via the wonders of Twitter. Late yesterday, Michael Good of RTE talked about how they covered the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and, finding that the “public wanted more than radio programmes could give”, had to turn to the web and networked journalism to improve coverage. Charlie… Read more →
Brian Wallace has collected ten great social media infographics. I think the most useful is Age Distribution on Social Network Sites, the most interesting is The Conversation Prism (below), and the most incomprehensible is the Social Media Periodic Table of Elements. Anyway, it’s a nice collection. Go looksee!
From Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics (via Cyberjournalist):
Via Roo Reynolds I just came across Dale Lane’s TV scrobbling project. For those of you who don’t use the social music site Last.FM, ‘scrobbling‘ is the act of gathering attention data for analysis. Last.FM pioneered the scrobbling of listening data from people’s computers, allowing them to see at a glance what they listened to, what their friends listened to,… Read more →
Oh, I love a bit of infoporn and this is a truly glorious visualisation of the decline of the British, Spanish, French and Portuguese maritime empires by Pedro Cruz. (For a bigger version, pop along to Vimeo.) Cruz explains: The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. I… Read more →
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