Blame it on PR
Apparently a true story I just heard from a former boss: Back when he managed Comdex, the giant tech show, he shared a PR manager with a rival VP. That VP often felt short-changed by the PR manager. At the 2000 Comdex, a reporter got food poisoning at an off-site event and died the next [...]
Alex Vollmer’s review of election day infographics
Be sure you don’t miss Alex Vollmer’s excellent review of election day infographics. He wanted to see the margins of victory, percentage of precincts reporting, number of delegates at stake, and other goals. He looked at the New York Times online, CNN, National Public Radio and other media.
Wall Street Journal tag clouds compare Romney and JFK
Today’s Wall Street Journal Online uses tag clouds—the first I’ve seen on that site—to compare Mitt Romney’s statement on religion with John F. Kennedy’s statement in the fall of 1960 as he ran for president. It’s great to see the Wall Street Journal getting into information visualization (a.k.a. “infovis” among aficionados). No big story has [...]
“Poets are the original systems thinkers”
Here’s a morsel with possibly no practical value at all. It’s from last Sunday’s New York Times on what CEOs read: “I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers,” says Sidney Harman, founder of Harman Industries, a $3 billion producer of sound systems for luxury cars, theaters and airports … [...]
