Six Revisions has a cool article called 10 Revealing Infographics About the Web. Indeed the graphics are revealing. You'll have seen some, but there are others you haven't seen. Here's my favourite:
Go take a look.
Infographics
Posted on Friday, September 25 by Jill
The Jewish New Year Collection
Posted on Friday, September 18 by Jill
Taking a look at the You Tube videos devoted to Rosh Hashana gives you a great example of how communities use the social media. These videos get passed around a tremendous amount. You'll see many of them in the Facebook newsfeed today and probably on Twitter as well. These are just a few of the many many videos being passed around this weekend.
Google's Crop Circle Mystery
Posted on Tuesday, September 15 by Jill
What's with the crop circles on Google's homepage today? According to the Guardian:
Google UK's homepage is today given over to a "doodle" showing a flying saucer hovering over crop circles. The word "Google" is spelt out in several crop circles, but the letter "L" is missing.
The internet giant also posted a tweet on its Twitter account with the map reference 51.327629, 0.5616088, which eagle-eyed sci-fi fans have identified as the centre of the small town of Horsell in Surrey. This was the spot where HG Wells set the first UFO landing in his novel The War of the Worlds.
Everyone's trying to read deep significance into this. Is it about abduction? Or aliens? Or Horsell? Or just crop circles? No. It's almost certainly a viral marketing campaign teasing people ahead of some launch in a week or two. One possible explanation is that it's trailing an online "happening" that will coincide with the 143rd anniversary of Wells's birth next week.
