Obama's inauguration speech - Two ways of looking at it.

The New York Times Visualization Lab produced this "wordle" of President Obama's inauguration speech.



The image below is how Graphic Muralizer Stephanie Crowley "pictured" the speech.



Click on each image to get a better view. Which image do you prefer? I vote for Stephanie's.

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Memory is the New Sex

I am exploring the use of Clipmarks as a short cut to posting. If you click on the link it will open an article by NYT writer David Brooks on the Age of Forgetting. Sometimes humor can be very brutal .

clipped from www.nytimes.com In the era of an aging population, memory is the new sex.

The Outsourced Brain - New York Times

OM! by David Brooks

The Outsourced Brain - New York Times-

"you may wonder if in the process of outsourcing my thinking I am losing my individuality. Not so. My preferences are more narrow and individualistic than ever. It’s merely my autonomy that I’m losing .... Personal information? I’ve externalized it. I’m no longer clear on where I end and my BlackBerry begins."

The entire article is about a 1 minute read -- humor with a really sharp point - you will be glad you did!