Our good friends at Vizzuality just released Old Weather, a beautiful and useful project in which some of your spare time can make a difference:
Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.
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Here’s a quick realtime demo. Check it out for yourself:
You’ve got eighteen minutes of video or three minutes or whatever the number is. The question is: what can you do with that time that sends tingles down the spine of the person at the other end. It’s not gonna be handing them a piece of text.
Video is now just as accesible as the written word once was. With less time on our hands and more visual mediums at our disposal, images are information’s essence. More on this subject soon.
The four largest newspapers in Spain–El País, El Mundo, ABC and La Razón– eliminated 906 work positions between 2003 and 2009, PRNoticias reported yesterday. These layoffs represent 39 percent of the 2,325 staff members the dailies had seven years ago.
According to the 2010 Report of the Journalistic Profession, released last week by Universidad de Malaga, 6,500 Spanish journalists are currently unemployed and the number is expected to increase to almost 10,000 by end of 2010, Xornal de Galicia reported.
There’s something brutal yet refreshing about catastrophes: there’s the opportunity to start over, to do it better.
Choose the right music, the right tempo, the right folklore and you have a beautiful portrait with bursting colours and life. Here’s a videodoc from filmmaker Luis Mandoki to give you a taste of what Mexico city is like if you pick and choose correctly. If you’ve never been, take a a look.
