Visualizing Job Losses

Visualizing job losses in a gut-wrenching way:
Watching the year-over-year job growth in different areas of the country; watching the impact of natural disasters like Hurricanes; then seeing the mounting job losses hit different parts of the country as the economy tumbles; I cannot help but be reminded of pictorial versions of nuclear destruction. Only this time it is more like neutron bombs -- the people are gone but the empty buildings are left standing.

ADHD & Twitter

Timeliness of Content
In the late '90s most organizational web sites were fairly static. Then the CMS-era took centralized updating and delegated it throughout an organization and updates became more frequent. Blogs hit the scene with shorter article updates becoming more frequent - sometimes daily. Then social networks engaged us with even shorter content posts. And now the micro-blogging Twitterverse has us expecting constant updates throughout the day.

The Hunger for Updates
It seems that our increasingly-attention-deficit society is hungering for new content -- constantly updated, all-the-time, 24/7. Whatever is driving it, the technology is evolving to deliver it! But are we really ready to handle it? When is content really "new"? How do we judge the "signal-to-noise" ratio?