Julian Assange on 60 Minutes this weekend. He actually came off as pretty polished. By contrast, the long NYTMag piece about him was….unflattering. But they did have an interesting perspective from working with him to release some of his docs  

Via TechCrunch:

The State of Wikipedia (Video + Infographic)

Wikipedia just celebrated its tenth birthday. As a self-proclaimed fan of the site, I wanted to share with you this video, made for the occasion as Wikipedia enters its second decade.

The ‘State Of Wikipedia’ video is part of the ‘State Of’ series made by interactive agency fromJESS3, and is narrated by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.

Today, the English Wikipedia now stands at 3.5+ million articles (up from roughly 500,000 in March 2005), and more than 17 million across all languages.

No matter what you think about Wales, the foundation or the site, that’s an impressive feat.

(Source: press release)

Click the image below for a larger infographic:

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A well-spent ten minutes.

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Buck, in collaboration with TakePart and An Inconvenient Truth director, Davis Guggenheim, describe the education crisis in America in motion graphics for upcoming documentary, Waiting for “Superman”. Watch the video below. It’s a more or less a run of education vitals, but it flows well and has a nice look and feel.

Landon Donovan goal reactions across the country/world. Lovely. Thanks to Swersky. Big game tmrw…

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Check this out. It’s pretty cool to see the US so into the world cup! As Jon Stewart said, “This win is huge for 2 reasons: 1) national pride, and 2) if we go all the way, if we win the world cup, the *whole* rest of the world has to refer to the sport as soccer.”

From Flowing Data:

For the most part, you go about your day-to-day with little knowledge of all the bits and networks you walk past or intersect with. Designer Timo Arnall visualizes these wireless networks of WiFi, bluetooth, etc. in the physical world (video below). It’s a simple idea. As we move through the landscapes, white dashed circles move around buildings with WiFi and people carrying mobile gadgets.

Here’s the artsy fartsy description:

Utopian and radical architects in the 1960s predicted that cities in the future would not only be made of brick and mortar, but also defined by bits and flows of information. The urban dweller would become a nomad who inhabits a space in constant flux, mutating in real time. Their vision has taken on new meaning in an age when information networks rule over many of the city’s functions, and define our experiences as much as the physical infrastructures, while mobile technologies transform our sense of time and of space.

I’m not sure if these are real wireless networks detected with a sensor or simply made up. I’m going to assume the former. It’s much cooler that way.