David McCandless of Information is Beautiful has posted a work in progress pondering the nature of successful information design as the intersection of accuracy, relevance, usefulness, and structure. He sums up the idea in a classic Venn diagram and suggests that “if you have just two elements, you get something tolerable and cool [...] but [...]
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Think Twice Before Firing Editors
In a move that seems to epitomize the recent decline of the newspaper industry, last week the Toronto Star decided to let go of a hundred members of its pre-publishing and editorial divisions. One of the scorned staffers channeled the energy set free by the mass layoff into a vengeant act of copy editing that [...]