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Planet

Making Maps To Fight Disaster & Build Economies

by Steffan Antonas on January 19, 2010

Did you know that as of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped? Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda thinks we can do better. Not having detailed maps in the developing world slows the delivery of aid after a disaster and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. Said another way, access to [...]

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Branding, Adbusting and Culture Jamming

by Steffan Antonas on August 7, 2009

We’ve got a talent problem. We’ve got too many brilliant marketers getting us to love stuff. Somehow they’ve gotten us to buy into this formula: bigger, better, shinier, more expensive stuff = self-esteem. Being the self-esteem seeking creatures that we are, we consume gratefully. The issue is that it’s not doing us much good.
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Cracking Open The Wisdom Project

by Steffan Antonas on July 11, 2009

A week has gone by since I eagerly placed the order for The Wisdom Book on Amazon. To tell you the truth, I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this amped to get a book in the mail. When it got here this morning, I was genuinely excited. The box is massive (because the [...]

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Visualizing Positive Vibes of the 44th Inauguration via Twitter

by Steffan Antonas on February 3, 2009

On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 12pm, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. As we all watched Obama being sworn in front of the massive crowd, Twitter lit up with excitement worldwide. One of Flowing Data’s latest visualization projects shows us just how excited the Twittersphere was over time [...]

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