It’s Facebook vs. Twitter now, mk.frogpond vs. frogpond – Facebook lost because they wouldn’t let me choose frogpond as username … via jess3

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Via Peter Glaser, exactly what I needed this morning, science visualization with Eumir Deodato’s music, this is beautyful in so many ways:

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from Delrious on Vimeo.

Via Johannes, but I’ve seen this elsewhere too … Continuum explains how design strategists work:

“Where do new ideas come from? This film is about design strategists and how they identify the right ideas. It was produced by the global innovation consultancy Continuum.”

Ah, visualizations and their power to guide and structure creative thinking, and sometimes they’re so timely. So as I am starting off to a trip to Milano tomorrow for the second International Forum on Enterprise 2.0, it’s a good idea to learn more about caffé (even when it’s not included in these 50 great examples of infographics …):

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In the past I blogged about several of David Armano’s visualizations, here’s an overview of his works, great variety:

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Cool stuff, like his take on time:

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Being in the moment, looking back and forth – here’s something fitting, found via Soulsoup: an animated British History Timeline by the BBC , let’s call it an interactive flash explainer:

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Need even more animations? Try Rotkäppchen explained:

But it’s not all fun stuff, it’s about science indeed – take this as proof, found via Orgtheory.net and via Scatterplot – a visual representation of the relationships between the sciences (the article is here):

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And for an even closer look inside, try this road map of complexity science I found via Walter Baets (what does it really mean, what is included, what could be included, etc.  – you better click through for closer examination):

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(Free) monday fun – blogging all the stuff I’ve seen and bookmarked lately, like this UK documentary (see the project site), on open government, digital democracy and a networked civil society that employs the web in creative ways. Yes, we’re talking about all the changes technology bring … and couch surfing is a social (business model) innovation for sure.

Nice to see people like Don Tapscott, Lee Bryant, JP Rangaswami and Clay Shirky have their say. Nice too, that it leaves me in a positive mood, which isn’t natural in these times ( link goes to a german language article on the sad state of the “Internet inflicted changes discussion” in Germany, sadly it’s not a German thing alone).

Movie blurb:

In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United’s FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and manage the football club. If distributed networks of people can run complex organisations such as football clubs, what else can they do? […]

Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.