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I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.

The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design [Smashing Magazine]

horvathtamas:

Amazing Examples of Infographics to Visualize Ideas

(via sunfoundation)

Calibri > Helvetica > Arial. Discuss.

[via Poynter]

Helvetica on Firefox: Overriding Fonts with CSS (keyvan.net)
How Many Helveticas Does It Take to Get to the Moon and Back? (neatorama.com)
How we fell in love with our letters (guardian.co.uk)

I want my Helvetica.

Wanderlust: Designer Stefan Sagmeister on finding happiness and design inspiration

The Last Farm, a short Icelandic film directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson and starring Jón Sigurbjörnsson, is now being featured in the YouTube Screening Room. Nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2006, the 20-minute production gets into some sobering yet inescapably universal issues – love, aging, family and death.

[open culture]

Changing Journalism, from a Reuters editor

idlewyld:

The rules of today’s journalistic world are these:

Knowing the story is not enough.

Telling the story is only the beginning.

The conversation about the story is as important as the story itself.

The more you try to be paternalistic and authoritative, the less people will believe you.

The more you cede control to your audience, the more people will respect you

The more you embrace new technology as a platform, the more your ideas will compete.

The more you abandon the faceless and characterless, the more you can set the agenda

The more you look beyond the story for connections, the more value you will have.

And if you have value and no one else does, you will get paid.

Simple? No.

But it is exciting and transforming.

- David Schlesinger, Reuters Editor

James Earl Jones reads Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven.

Surely better than Christopher Walken reading Lady Gaga.

Experts will tell you that fairy tales — folk tales — were never meant for children at all. In the not-so-long-ago days of yore, the people of the world were illiterate, intransient, and in need of entertainment.

Stefany Anne Golberg, Pertinent & Impertinent

Umberto Eco, “An Illustrated Presentation on the History of Beauty and Ugliness”

Christopher Walken Reads Lady Gaga

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - BBC One

Richard Davis was killed in a car accident at the corner of 90th and MacArthur in East Oakland, California in December.

Days later, the half brother of the victim, Darrell Armstead, a popular turf dancer, and his crew, The Turf Feinz, paid an artful tribute at the scene of the crash.

Filmmaker Yoram Savion captured the dance that unfolded in the cold winter rain.

[Open Culture]