The Bluetooth T mobile Wing uses a form factor that’s grown quite popular. Like a number of other high-end models, it includes a QWERTY keyboard with a landscape orientation that can be hidden behind its display. This smartphone is the exact opposite …

Checkout Remo Burkhard’s 2005 “Tube Map Visualization” at jucs.org (volume 11 issue 4). A very serious analysis of the metaphor and knowledge discovery.

Martin Kay, a fellow information architect wrote an ebook on using tube maps for process/workflow visualization. (www.kaywebs.co.uk)

For an interesting collection of other tube maps checkout- owen.massey.net/tubemaps.html

I think your trend map is the best example I’ve come across, for sure. But, if they’re upset about the use of the map then they need to first check and see if they’ve paid for the licensing of the original; Mr. Harry Beck and the London Underground.

Great site! Keep it up!

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Big media conglomerates have less influence amid the continued explosion of news sites, blogs and podcasts, News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said in the session moderated by Charlie Rose and available via Webcast. “It’s so pluralistic,” Murdoch said. “We all have less power, much less…(we) the big companies.” Not only are there many more places from which to get news and opinion thanks to the Internet, he said. He said traditional media are also “put right immediately” these days when making mistakes, citing the example of the CBS News affair surrounding allegations against president George Bush last year. Similarly, Murdoch said “government now has to be much more open” because of the Web and suggested, along with Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer and the possible future prime minister of the U.K., that governments should try to see it as an opportunity for them. “We just have to let this go,” Murdoch said. “We can’t reverse it.” Asked if his News Corp. managed to shape the agenda on the war in Iraq, Murdoch said: “No, I don’t think so. We tried.” Asked by Rose for further comment, he said: “We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East…but we have been very critical of his execution.” The News Corp. CEO also once again signaled that he sees much more change ahead thanks to digital media. “We’re in the very early stages of it,” he said.

I also see those who run forums or discussion lists, etc.. not responding after the first “rush” of reader input. It would help a great deal if they could put in place some measurement tool to react to this type of reader interaction.

Another forum / discussion list related issue is the posting of forum topics. Being more open and requesting things like what their readers like to read… then following through with good solid reporting on the topic (even if not daily or even weekly) would really help to open them up to their community. If the readers knew that they could shape what was reported on it would go along way to bridging the gap (at least those newspapers in America).