The Story of Beer

[Via The World's Biggests]

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The World Map of Facebook Connections

[Via BBC]

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Wordpress in data

The Power of WordPress by Tech King

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Conditional Cash Transfers

Presentation of my paper on Conditional Cash Transfers for my Emerging Markets Class at the MCDM

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) on Prezi

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Bedbugs Infestation

[Via NJ.com]

Waiting for the Interurban

Here's the story of the sculpture

Here is another link to the complete photo set.

Waiting for the Interurban is located in Fremont, Seattle.

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Personal Finance on Napkins

Compilation of the series created by Carl Richards for his Bucks Blog in the NYT. Clic on the image in order to go to the interactive feature.

[Via NYT]

Happy Thanksgiving

For more Gas Station messages, check this Flickr set.

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African Undersea Cables for 2012

[Via Many Possibilities]

The Story of Social Media Bookmarking

[Via Screensumer]

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Visualizing Scientific Evidence for Health Supplements

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[Via Information is Beautiful + TED Talk by David McCandless]

High School Movies, a Timeline (1973-2007)

[Via: OnlineMBARankings.com]

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Facebook Splits: Spring Break & Christmas Season

Nice graphic showing at which dates Facebook users announce that they have break their relationships in the social media service.

[Via Mathias Mikkelsen]

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Incepcion timeline

[Via *dehahs- Devianart]

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Global Telephone Traffic Map

[Via Tele Geography]

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Gen Y and online shopping

[Via The Wall]

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A Map Made of Adresses

Wonderful project by Axis Maps where typography serves not only as content but also as continent. They have realized maps of Boston and Chicago with this technique.

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How to Have an Idea

[Via Frank Chimero]

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How the Internet will be in 2020

[Via Intac.net]

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How To Handle Irate Customers

[Via:CRM Spec Ops: How To Handle Irate Customers]

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Public Spending in the UK: 1948-2010

[Via The Guardian]

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You can Make Department Cuts to the UK Budget

[Via The Guardian]

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The Rise of the Android

[Via Gigaom]

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Web Designers in data

[Via TechKing]

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The Trustworthiness Of Beards

[Via Buzzfeed/Reddit]

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What happens when you swipe your credit card

[Via Fee Fighters]

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Social Media Villains and How to Get Rid of Them

[Via Pierre Tran]

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The true size of Africa

click on the image for a longer version


By Kai Krause

[Via geekosystem]

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WordPress history, the jazzy rise

[Via Bloggingpro]

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Facebook profiles

[Via Fast Company]

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Does Technology make us more productive?

[Via GOOD]

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The Darwinian Evolution of Windows

Infographic: The Darwinian Evolution of Windows by Tech King

Thanks Andy for the tip

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How to farm mussels

Here it is one of the gorgeous travelogue drawings made by the Infographic team at Spanish newspaper Público during the last summer. The idea was to create graphics using old moleskines and any kind of material, coming up with some kind of purely analog illustration. Público's head of infographics is Álvaro Valiño. This graphic was created by Artur Galocha.

If you want to check all the travelogues, clic here.

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My new portfolio

Xurxomartinez.com, my professional web and portfolio.

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Colors and purchases

[Via Kissmetrics]

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Internet memes—Infography—

Via: Online University

[Via Zee]

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FACT mixes

Probably the FACT magazine Mixes are the best and more solid of the many music mix series out there—check this Day&Night post for a good selection—. And one pretty eclectic too: from Indie heroes—The XX—, to reputed DJs—Ben Klock—, remixers—Ewan Pearson—, or electronic music producers—Autechre, Robert Hood—.

The good thing is that each week there is a couple of new mixes to discover. The not so good thing is that download is only possible during three weeks. Again, the good thing is that there is a complete archive in Mixcloud, so the music is available online.

Two of my favorites are the ones by King Midas Sound and Fantastic Mr. Fox, but there is a lot of music to explore.

Fact Mix 161: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Fact Mix Archive on Mixcloud

Fact Mix 103: King Midas Sound by Fact Mix Archive on Mixcloud

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Tomi Lebrero & Vincent Moon

This is one of the Videos Vincent Moon showed yesterday at one video workshop in Seattle. Shoot in Buenos Aires February 2010, it portrays Tomi Lebrero. Is just one take and incredibly beautiful. Moon himself said that it was one of his finest works.

Take Away Show #104 _ TOMI LEBRERO from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

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What big companies told Behavioral Advertisers about you

I agree with Jeff Jarvis when he says that web cookies have been there for more than fifteen years, and that the advertiser have always knew things about us that we never told them. In fact that's part of the bargain: we get web content for free because we are being targeted with commercial intentions. But that doesn't make the following infographic by the Wall Street Journal less scary. It tracks the main 50 websites in the US and explains how many cookies do they install in your browser when you visit their site and who do they sell your information.

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Can we date?

Good article and great infography [text by Erik Bryan, graphic by Jennifer Daniel] in The Morning News.



[Vía Euge]

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What Is Behavioral Targeting?

Presentation for my U.S. Digital Media Law and Policy class. MCDM - UW. Summer 2010.

Behavioral Targeting on Prezi

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Great HTML5 game

[Via Monocubed]

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Prezi: You will swoon as I zoom

Forget about slides. In today’s hyperlink world, a classic presentation feels like being inside of a corridor without the option to enter any of the side doors.
If you’re still stuck on PowerPoint presentations, it may be time to try out more dynamic alternatives, like Prezi, which has the financial and advisory back of TED and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

TechCrunch contributor Robin Wauters called Prezi "the coolest online presentation tool I've ever seen." And Garr Reynolds, who coined the phrase ‘Presentation Zen,’ earlier this year declared Prezi a presentation tool more suitable for the digital natives than its competitors.
That’s a lot of praise for Prezi. So, let’s see what it’s all about.

Elevator pitch
Prezi is a flash-based nonlinear storytelling tool for creating dynamic multimedia presentations. The end result is not a set of slides, but a canvas where the user can zoom in and out, discovering contextual relationships.

Prezi’s strengths
As Prezi's Community Manager, Zoltan Randai, explains, “slideshows haven't really changed since the late 1950-s, when the first acetate slide projector hit the market, while Prezi matches the way we consume information on the internet.”

Prezi is more customizable and agile than Power Point or Keynote, and offers the ability to integrate video, .pdf documents and vector images.

Because it’s an online service, Prezi is not only a creation tool, but also a distribution platform. This is fostered by the fact that many “prezis” are created as public objects that anyone can see, embed, and even copy and modify.

To keep the final product private, you need to sign up for a paid plan, but since January students and teachers can get the basic paid plan (“Enjoy”) for free. This has helped boost traffic to their site.

In addition to educational purposes, Prezi can also be a powerful tool for businesses.

“Prezi allows the audience to get your points immediately, while they have a clear picture about relations, arguments, and the tiny details. Many customers use Prezi not only for business presentations, but also for project planning, market research and analysis. They use it as a media wall in their offices or on the smart board at meetings. But the most interesting way of using the tool is collaborating in workgroups,” says Randai.

As storytelling starts to be more important in all complex organizations—from
schools to companies—Prezi seems to be in a great position to become a basic tool for internal communication, and even as a journalism tool for multimedia pieces.

Some examples
The best way to learn what you can do with Prezi is to take a look at what others have done:

How to make business presentations
Sweet recipe to solving problems (a good example of Prezi’s animation capabilities)
Playing to Learn? (an example of an educational prezi)
MySpace LeWeb Keynote (by MySpace Mike Jones)

For more examples of public prezis, visit http://prezi.com/showcase/

This article was originally written for the class Digital Media Economics and Management. MCDM, Spring 2010.

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Artopia 2010

Another neighborhood party/festival in Seattle. This time is the Artopia 2010 at Georgetown. the town was built next to the Rainier Brewery, which was one of the biggest in the world. In 1910 the town was annexed to Seattle. Artopia is organized by the artist community in the neighborhood.
Click here to se more photos and videos.

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Fremont Solstice Parade

These are photos and videos from the Fremont Solstice Parade, in Seattle. Part of the 2010 Fremont Fair this is a popular—in the best sense of the word—party where everybody is invited. To see more videos and photos, click on the image above.

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WSB: Old Business for New Times

WSB: Old Business for New Times from seretuaccidente on Vimeo.

Tracy and her husband Patrick are the publishers of the West Seattle Blog, one of the hyperlocal weblogs that have proved it is possible to make a living from community journalism in a neighborhood or small town. She has been identified as one of the communicators who is finding ways of making sense of news as a business by people like the Poynter Institute — she is part of their Sense-Making Project — and the News Innovation program at CUNY.The economic crisis and the change in the way we share information have accelerated a situation that most of the media has refused to accept: the end of big editorial structures and advertising as a huge source of revenue for journalism.

While most of the industry is waiting for a revolutionary shift to a completely new business model for what we call journalism — or maybe we should just call it “telling stories that matter” — people like Tracy Record are succeeding in being revolutionary by using common sense and a small structure to apply their “old journalism” knowledge to the new online world.

In this video interview, Tracy explains the journey that took the West Seattle Blog from a hobby to a full-time job that provides the sole source of income for her family. She also talks about the roots of the Legacy Media crisis, why online ventures are still not profitable for big journalism outlets, and the key to her success.

Finally, a tip from Tracy to those who may be thinking of creating a media site for their neighborhood or small town: “Know how your neighborhood works, and make sure that your audience is really underserved.”

(originally posted in Flip the Media)

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Life Without Buildings: The Leanover

The best song from the best group you didn't knew about—and that doesn't exist anymore—

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Northern voice conference

My summary of what happened during the 2010 Northern Voice conferences in Vancouver, B.C.

Northern Voice 2010 on Prezi

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Eugene Cho at TEDxSEA

The most engaging talk in the Seattle TEDx event. Eugene is the founder of the NGO One Day Wages.
- You can check other Eugene Cho's videos in Vimeo here
- More videos from TEDx Seattle

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A special report on innovation in emerging markets: First break all the rules | The Economist

via economist.com

Posted via web from seretuaccidente's posterous

Easter eggs: the video

Easter eggs from seretuaccidente on Vimeo.

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Easter eggs

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Spring break

Photos from my trip to L.A. and San Francisco

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Holy Week, by The Big Picture

Awesome selection by Boston.com, as usual.

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Evolution and Trends in Digital Media Technologies

The presentation of my paper on Sports TV Broadcasting for the Evolution and Trends in Digital Media Technologies class. I include after it another three presentations from class that I really enjoyed.

Sports Tv Broadcasting

View more presentations from Xurxo Martínez.

LI XIANG

Fashion diffusion and the role of media

View more presentations from jekyllisa.

DEAN HUDSON

Com546 Final Pres

View more presentations from deanhudson.

ERIKA TAKEUCHI

From snapshots to social commodities: The rise of the shutterbug

View more presentations from silknsavvy.

All the projects and presentations can be reached here.

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Honor & Tradition

Honor & Tradition from seretuaccidente on Vimeo.

An exploration of the Western Martial Arts in the words of instructors and participants in the 4W Workshop, organized by Academia della Spada in Seattle.

Camera, Stephen Brashear
Editing, Xurxo Martínez

There is another version with a music montage at the end.

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Say it loud

Gary's Forecasting stone

I love it.


Photo by Gareth Harper.

Vía Sam's The Evolution of Machine Translation presentation.

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Take Away Shows Wordle

For the lazy people, a Wordle version of my paper on the Take Away Shows(more than 9,000 words, none of them bad).

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Take Away Shows: music streams

Here's my paper on Les Concerts à Emporter / Take Away Shows and La Blogotheque.
Take Away Shows

Visualizing World Aid to Haiti

Data by The Guardian. Uploaded by rpnabar

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A day in Seattle

Slideshow for my Storytelling class. The assignment consisted on a "I am" digital story in which we used about 10 photos, background music and audio narration. The music is a loop from an Atlas Sound song, 'Marietta', published in a non-commercial EP—Things I'll Miss— that can be download here.

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The best parental control ever

via worktobejudged.com

In Tera Brasil

Posted via web from seretuaccidente's posterous