* Gearhead: Data-intense, design-simple graphics * Backspin: $#&* your newsletter! * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Data-intense, design-simple graphics
Say you’re writing a report on how your Web site’s sales system has been performing, and you want to show the vice president of sales the important statistics. You could hit her with one big graph or a set of graphs created in Excel, but you know she’s not going to focus on anything that is too techie looking. Even so, you want to get the information into her brain as easily as possible.
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Backspin: $#&* your newsletter!
I just received yet another unasked for newsletter by e-mail. It was from a company that has a product I think is pretty good and the newsletter started with the following spiel from the vice president of marketing…
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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
This Week in Gearhead: Data-Intense, Design-Simple, Word-Sized Graphics
This week in Gearhead we have this really cool idea for displaying data such as this: … cool, eh? Don’t see what this is all about? Read on …
This Week in Backspin: $#&* Your Newsletter!
This week in Backspin I rant that: I am totally pissed off with these involuntary subscriptions! It’s bad enough to get more gunge in my inbox but when that gunge sucks … well, it makes you want to stab someone. The problem is that these newsletters almost never contain anything of value. They are almost always smug, chatty, self-congratulatory, irrelevant, and boring, boring, boring.
Heavens Above: New Planet Named
The largest dwarf planet in the solar system (previously designated “2003 UB313” and unofficially named “Xena”) has now been officially named Eris and its satellite is now Dysnomia.
MySpace and Spam 2.0
From a Valleywag article, MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition): The generally held assumption is that MySpace is a social networking site: “a place for friends,” as their slogan puts it. In reality, MySpace is the next generation of marketing, advertising and promotion, exquisitely disguised as social networking. Simply put, MySpace.com is Spam 2.0. … definitely worth a read.
