The presentation is far from TED‘s best, but despite the poorly masked politics, the idea of composing visual narratives is compelling and important as we learn new visual literacies:
From The New York Times: It’s interesting to view the mapping of the major speakers’ words with the words of Obama’s and McCain’s acceptance speeches. They’re mapped here using the very cool Wordle, which my dear friend Suzanne Tiedemann introduce me to. Obama and then McCain (click on image for better resolution): Whereas the…
The New York Times has reported the death of Robert Giroux, one of the most important editors and publishers ever: How many masterpieces Mr. Giroux discovered will be for the future to decide. As he himself insisted, it can take decades for a book to become a classic. Still, one of the first books…