A Flickr set containing some absolutely stunning visualizations created by Jer Thorp using Processing and the New York Times article search API.
These visualizations show the top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001. Connections between these people & organizations are indicated by lines.
He must have added some recently, because he’s got 1984 to 2009 represented now.
Update: there’s more information about the visualizations over at blprnt.
A list of peer-reviewed papers and other academic literature with Wikipedia as the subject.
Related: Wikipedia in culture.
It’s worth opening in a background tab and half-listening-to while you check whatever else is so damn important this morning.
The kind of mass protest that always works is illegal just about everywhere in the United States today. Why is that? For a protest to be effective, you have to stop traffic. You have to stop traffic. What keeps you from getting a permit in the United States? Stepping a foot into the street. Now why do you have to stop traffic? Because for a protest to do anything, it has to disrupt business as usual.
I should also note that hawktrainer shared the link via Treehugger via Chelsea Green via After Downing Street.
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