As Mike pointed out yesterday, the world was watching last night’s election with eager anticipation. So what was the reaction today? My son Alex, who has been tracking the election results last night and this morning, linked me up with a great resource called Newseum. The concept is simple: a museum for news and journalism. What struck me was the archive of newspaper front pages from both American and international sources. Forget about going to the library and digging through microfiche! Here are some of today’s global front pages for the historic Obama win (by the way, I love being right):
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I was recently scouring the Internet for information about the history of advertising; more specifically I was hoping to find a timeline. Not only are they a great way to visualize key historical moments but they are also a concise format where intimidating amounts of information are summarized into key points and presented in chronological order. Unfortunately I didn’t find the timeline I was searching for, but I did find timelines….and lots of them!
I stumbled across a site called xtimelines, which is basically a place where people can create their own timelines (about almost any topic) and open them up to the public so more points along the line can be added or false information can be altered or removed (in true wiki style). The timeline can belong to different groups (e.g. Starbucks belongs to the fast food and multinational corporations groups) and under each timeline there is space set up like a Facebook wall for people to comment about the topic. Each point along the line is linked to another window which provides people with additional information about the event, for instance, on the McDonalds timeline if you click on the point that reads “Big Mac comes out in a big way” a new window opens and explains all you ever needed to know about the Big Mac (as seen below).
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At our June conference in Boston, CEO and founder of Legal OnRamp Paul Lippe started his presentation with a little pop quiz. Without stealing too much of his thunder, I thought I’d post one of the more interesting questions from his deck:
“Name a comprehensive information resource, written by random people and commentators all over the world (the #1 contributor was condemned as insane), that is only distributed online?”
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