March 29, 2011
Radiohead, is distributing a free newspaper around the world to support the physical release of their eighth album, The King of Limbs. The Universal Sigh is more of an event than a publication. Its physical distribution lasts just two days, 28 and 29 March, with handout events in cities aorund the world. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, […]
March 27, 2011
Despite my occasional criticism of Google News’s Twitter feed, they can be incredibly timely. Such was the case yesterday when they beat the New York Times, albeit by a matter of seconds, to post NYT content. Not the biggest deal in the world but it raises a couple […]
March 26, 2011
On the surface, the Guardian’s coverage of the Arab world protests has been fairly standard. But what doesn’t make the front page of the Guardian’s print edition – or website – is the slew of ultra-modern, hyper-interactive and visually delicious flash maps and visualisations. A few days ago, they posted a Flash timeline called The […]
March 13, 2011
The Huffington Post’s new content visualisation – NewsGlide – is the most fun I’ve had browsing news since I signed up for Twitter. It comes as a mobile app, application/extension for Chrome, and a good old fashioned URL at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/NewsGlide/ In terms of offering, NewsGlide includes most of the content available on the full blown Huffington Post website […]
March 13, 2011
The BBC News app for iPad is solid, smooth and super readable. In landscape, stories are organised into sections (in horizontal bars to the left), the order of which is determined by readers. Each story box has a headline and thumbnail and each section contains nine stories. Horizontal scrolling lets readers look at all the story […]
March 12, 2011
The Good Good Noows is a new RSS feed reader with slightly sexier visualisation options than we’re used to. There are ten visualisation options. My favorite views are called Intelligence Dashboard and Blog Blocks. When you sign up, Good Noows walks you through a simple, if a little slow, setup in which you choose the […]
July 1, 2011
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