Cluetrain – More relevant than ever:
[Via Robert Paterson's Weblog]
The Cluetrain Manifesto was one of the pivotal books in my life. I remember being brought to tears in some parts because it put into words things that I had felt for quite some time. To me, it is one of the most important works of the last 20 years.
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Back when taking a drag wasn’t a drag:
[Via Joho the Blog]
Stanford’s posted a great collection of cigarette ads designed to hide the fact that sooner or later you’ll be coughing up blood. (Thanks to Tim Hiltabiddle for the link.)
Do all ads look so misbegotten in hindsight?
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Where Wars Kill People:
[Via Cosmic Variance]
The World’s Fair links to a great site at Telegraph.co.uk: the Atlas of the Real World. It’s a set of world maps (really cartograms), with the area of countries proportional to something more interesting than the mere land area – number of nuclear weapons, wealth in the year 1, and so on. Here is one to chew over: number of war deaths in the years since WWII.
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Latin America shows up just a bit. The big orange country in Asia is China, not Russia.
There are 18 maps and some of them are really interesting. NIce to have software that can help visualize data for us.
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