Posts tagged Picture
Cartoon: Do I Have to Draw You a Picture?
Oct 2nd
Where the hell did all the infographics come from, anyway?
One moment they’re relegated to the pages of USA Today, enlightening people about such burning issues as How is America getting to the mall today? (private auto, 57%; public transportation, 25%; foot or bicycle, 12%; part of a marauding mob of looters, 4%; taxi, 2%).
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The next, they’re everywhere. (Followed immediately by a flood of “Why your brand needs to use infographics or face the boiling wrath of empowered customers” blog posts.)
And of course, hand in hand with the infographic is its evil counterpart, the pseudoinfographic. You can identify a pseudoinfographic through several distinguishing features:
- The word “infographic” appears prominently on it, often more than once.
- The images don’t add any additional information.
- Oh, look – there’s the word “infographic” again on the bottom.
Why the sudden rise of infographics? Have Edward Tufte and his followers encoded some form of subliminal infographic indoctrination into their now-ubiquitous data visualizations? Has the rise of online video challenged static text to come up with new, more engaging forms? Or is our collective unconsciousness making a last, desperate attempt to save the tl;dr crowd from its own impatience?
Whatever the reason, it seems the answer to every communications challenge at the moment is “Create an infographic!” And the truth is there are some great ones out there.
The best of them actually do fill a need, illustrating information visually and making complex ideas easier to grapple with. And please, feel free to share your favourites in the comments.
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Google Morphs AdWords Offering For Major Motion Picture Studios
Mar 24th
Google has announced a new version of AdWords called Media Ads, aimed initially at marketers of major motion pictures with new releases. It will allow them to embed the trailer into their ad, and have it automatically come up first when someone searches for the title, or some variation of it. When…
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Report on 30 day challenge: A picture a day
Nov 8th
In August 2010, my 30 day challenge was to take at least a picture a day. It was a good challenge, because that month I traveled with friends to Tanzania and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. I finally got around to making a picture-a-day public photo gallery with the pictures I selected. Here’s one of my favorite photos of the rain forest near the base of Kilimanjaro, for example:
It took a while to pick the photos, upload them, and add captions, so I hope you enjoy the photos!
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If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Then Is a Video Worth a Million?
Oct 11th
The YouTube Blog has two guest bloggers today: Troy Olson, Digital Advertising Manager, and Jeff Loquist, Search Marketing Manager, for ShoppersChoice.com. According to them, “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million.”
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