“Data deluge will reboot our brains”

A great title, and an interesting article based on a study looking at how data consumption has changed over 30 years. It’s been conducted by the University of California and suggests that we consume on average 34 gigabytes of information each day! The speed of modern life is 2.3 words per second, or about 100,000 [...]

Great Data Visualisations

Check out this amazing global animation of updates made to the OpenStreetMap project, something I was unaware of until I saw this years winners of the Best Data Visualisations awards on FlowingData.com and I urge you to check out the rest of them. http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/08/animated-map-shows-one-year-of-edits-to-openstreetmap/ OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

World’s First Crowdsourced Car Goes Into Production

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate form of handing control back to the people. Indeed it is this type of Glasnost that some people believe will be the way business manage to continue operating in the future. Here’s a cracking example which could save the motor industry. A new independent car company is rising from the ashes [...]

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