Guarding development

British liberal newspaper The Guardian has launched a website focused on development news and issues.
Funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the site is tracking the UN millennium development goals and takes content from a variety of sources, including the excellent Inter Press Service. Expect opinion columns, feedback forums and advocacy campaigns around hot development topics.
Read all about it.

Looking at data in new ways

Lately I have been working with colleagues to find out how to express data in new ways; to get attention while remaining accurate and providing insight - telling a story. I am working with some pretty clever data specialists and for a moment there I presumed my inputs would be limited. Yet it has proven to be a true team effort. And here is infographics wiz David McCandless, with a new book on Amazon and a video on TED, telling us that until a year ago he was a writer and has no training in design. Inspiring!
See more: http://bit.ly/91KXFQ

Yes Men still fix the world, through p2p sharing

Embracing the priates, the maverick duo Yes Men have released an edited version of their PR stunt video in an effort to stir the pot of controversey even harder, it seems.

"The Yes Men are Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, a culture jamming activist-duo raising awareness around social problems caused by corporations. Operating under the mission statement of telling the truth and exposing lies, they practice a concept they call "identity correction", in which they impersonate entities that they dislike -- some would call it social engineering on a grand scale! From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof, which have successfully lead to numerous interview, conference, and TV talk show invitations. These occasions are then used to expose, through parody and surreal humour, the dark motivations of our multinational world."
Download the movie via bittorrent here: http://vodo.net/yesmen