Steve Brill, entrepreneur, law writer, founder of Court TV and recently defunct CLEAR is trying to save journalism by reversing the trend of free news online. He gave a briefing today and while I did not hear it, @NeimanLab posted the slides here.

Let me say that I LOVE the idea of a kind of iTunes for news. It is my fondest wish that I not have a ( Read more... )

1. The Photography of Chris Jordan.
   
   Chris Jordan takes very, very big numbers and represents them in photographs. Here’s one that he made with folded prison uniforms standing in for Americans in prison. More on his official site.
   
2. The 30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century.
   
   I found this page by accident several years ago. I end up going back to it ( Read more... )

Oh man, this is pretty much everything that this blog is about in one place.

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This is a piece of brilliant design, for an excellent presentation about a critical problem, backed up by a raft of interesting statistics relating to the impact and efficacy of helping girls vs helping other groups.

(via Presentation Zen)

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