It’s been a while since I’ve written anything in this blog. I think it’s time for a change to coincide with the change in what my blog’s going to be about. If you look at the sidebar of my blog, I’ve been writing seriously in this blog since 2006. But most of it’s been about my travels and life living abroad. I guess it’s a bit of a change now since I don’t expect to be moving around too much in the future (i.e. yikes! settling down… I must be getting old).
The fun part will be to start writing about what interests me – like information graphics, how we can turn information and raw data into things that are interesting for people so they can understand the world better, and hopefully make better decisions/choices. So that’s going to be the change… of course, I’ll keep putting up photos from my observations around me, but I just thought I’d take a more interesting and focused approach to blogging (although I’ve heard blogging is dead).
To start off with, check out how journalism and media are changing the way they build a story/news and how all the data we’re generating, whether via the internet or not, is being used by graphic designers and artists to help us understand our world around us. The way we communicate now is a lot different than the photo above of a telephone on the steps of the Vallorbe train station in Switzerland – it was like traveling back in time.
Journalism in the Age of Data – http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/index.html
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