A new sibling for the exclamation mark? It is according to the Guardian blog which unveiled the ‘SarcMark’ this week.
In light of the ongoing debate around Google and China, Hillary Clinton’s speech on why we need to protect basic freedoms on the internet is an important read. Check out the speech in full here.
The UK Government served up manna from heaven for the data visualisation designers and statistics nuts this week when it unveiled data.gov.uk and an initial series of data sets – 3 times more than the US Government’s data.gov. To mine a rich UK-flavoured statistical seam start digging here.
We all know that Twitter is a massive social networking platform but how do you get your head around its true size? Fortunately, Mashable rides to the rescue with a rather marvellous stats story with data visualisation showing just what printing Twitter out would look like (should you want to!).
Interesting research published by Outsell this week, what does the future hold for the news: 57% of news readers prefer to get their news from online sources as opposed to reading papers, up from 33% a few years ago. Also, 31% of readers use an aggregator like Google or Yahoo to read news rather than going to news sites directly. So what does this mean for publications if they bring in subscription services?
Are more young people becoming online fraud victims due to lax social network security or does it boil down to probability and the nature of the game?
And lastly, talking of young ‘uns, a shameless plug for something we’re working on at the moment. Those in the office who are hurtling towards 40 at an alarming rate affectionately (and not without some envy) refer to this group as Nippers and we’re trying to find out what their attitude is to their finances. If you’re on the less saggy side of 30 feel free to have your say here.
