Posts Tagged ‘information is beautiful’

Chinese censoreship “map”

Friday, January 15th, 2010

[Editor’s note: China’s government censoreship and web practices have been in the news this week after Google threatened to pull out of the country. This map / tag cloud / art piece highlights forbidden topics and websites inside China. Thanks Curt!]

Republished from Gizmodo.

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Mountains Out of Molehills (Info is Beautiful)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

[Editor’s note: Captioned “a timeline of global media scares” this illustration from Information is Beautiful charts Y2K, SARS, and Swine Flu using the Google News Timeline resource.]

Republished from Information is Beautiful.

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