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Cliff Kuang at Fast Company points to a short, interesting talk by Alex Lundry of TargetPoint Consulting. Lundry quickly runs down the importance of infographics and data visualizations in the political realm. Bottom line: people are hard wired to learn through visualization, and infographics can be very powerful tools in political battles over ideas and [...]
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AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s ‘There’s A Map For That’ advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts. Verizon in an official response to AT&T’s lawsuit that Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” ad campaign is misleading. The background is that Verizon recently rolled out a [...]
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So I will be traveling all day Wednesday and basically Thursday. Substantive posting will hopefully resume soon after. In the meantime, here are a few items to keep you busy: Over at Advertising Age, Ana Andjelic discuss why digital agencies aren’t ready to lead. This article was originally posted over at her blog, i [love] [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
