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Lovely map of discretionary spending around the world, using scaled squares as a simple form of cartogram
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Friends are running a BarCamp at Google. focused on building bridges between the Silicon Valley community and African geeks and entrepreneurs. A very cool idea.
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It's a tough time for newspapers… with the exception of newspapers that serve immigrant communities, which are booming. A Boston-area Spanish language paper exands from weekly to six days a week.
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Inspired by BBC's "The Box", Garry Peterson digs into trade and economics data and comes up with some excellent flow maps of global trade.
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Great post on ways to use Mechanical Turk effectively for data checking, and ways to work profitably with Turkers
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Interesting riff on my post about tracking cultural export as a way of understanding cultural influence. Looks at UN's translation index to examine translation in post-Soviet states and sees vastly more translation in the Baltics and Central Europe than in Central Asia
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