In honor of the New York Times and IBM Many Eyes new Visualization Lab partnership here’s a list of more than 25 links (with more than 167 mind-blowing examples) of really fantastic resources I’ve been hording in my Delicious archive for inspiration. Long live data-rich, interactive and new graphic story forms!

• Flowing Data Personal Visualization Project Winner
• 10 Gorgeous Data Visualizations
• 5 Ways To Visualize The U.S. Elections
• Top 10 Creative Ways To Display Time
• 40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data
• 5 Data Visualization Dissertations Worth a Look
• data visualization & visual culture – information aesthetics
• How much is $700 billion?
• Obama Vs. McCain : Context and Scope to the 2008 US General Election
• 8 Cool Tools for a Different Photo Viewing Experience
• World Mapper
• 10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks
• Many Eyes : Browsing Visualizations
• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
• Information Design Patterns
• Moodstream by Getty Images
• Visual Literacy periodic table
• newsmap
• Lie By Lie — Bush’s lies over the years
• 10 Best Free Chart APIs
• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
• 8 Ways of visualizing the news
• 12 Cool Visualizations to Explore Books
• Visual Complexity
• prefuse interactive information visualization toolkit
• 20 Insane Supervillain Schemes In Flowchart Form

FAS-FAX Preview: Circ Numbers To Take Another Big Hit
“According to industry sources, overall daily circulation for the six months ending March 2007 is expected to sink approximately 2.5% while Sunday will drop around 3.0%” Major metros take the biggest blows. Interesting news contrast: Newspaper Web Site Traffic Sets New Record

MTV Drops Flash Site in Favor of (Boring) HTML
“So, what’s better about the new site — can you guess? * It’s faster. * The navigation is simpler. * The internal search works better”

Newsvine Relaunches… Announcing Evergreen
“Newsvine Evergreen begins today with the relaunch of the front page but is part of a much bigger effort to spread the vine outside the walls of our own domain and into all corners of the internet and blogosphere; the goal being to bring the news to wherever it naturally wants to go.”

Video tips from award-winning videographers
Angela breaks it down to nugget form in her fancy (what I’m calling) ‘brushed aluminum appliance’ blog, NewsVideographer.com. (Hopefully that URL doesn’t keep her in a video-only box. I’m stoked she’s going to focus and preach her rational newspaper video gospel, she also has many great ideas about multimedia user experiences that we all need to hear.)

Google surpasses Microsoft as world’s most-visited site
“The Mountain View search engine has outstripped Microsoft on two fronts, becoming both the most visited Web site and the most valuable global brand.” Zune flops. Vista flops. Now this!

2007 EPpy Award finalists announced
I’ll just going to stick to my ‘not talking about my work’ blog policy on here and as with the 3 other times this year my work been a finalist/won something. Yep. Nothin’ to see here. Move along.

Self-destructive pseudojournalism
“24-hour television news has created a terrible vacuum into which the worst possible garbage is pulled. Celebrity trash. Shouting heads. Political demagogues masquerading as journalists. Result: Fewer people today can name the vice president, their own governor, or the president of Russia today than in 1989. And the best-informed Americans are the ones who watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.”

Moyers: An Entrepreneur Will Save Journalism
“What also gives me hope is that in a market society, sooner or later some entrepreneur is going to figure out how to make a fortune by offering people news they can trust. Millions of Americans care about our democracy, they want high-quality information because they know freedom dies of too many lies, and surely in this new age of innovation someone’s going to figure out that good journalism can be profitable”

Nominate a digital media ‘Rising Star’
“OMMA magazine is looking for people to highlight for their upcoming ‘Rising Media Stars of 2007′ edition.”

The Roanoke Times: 404 Not Found : Covering the Tech shootings
Notes from Roanoke on covering the VT shooting.

WPNI Launches Environment-Friendly Shopping Site
More newspapers getting into niche websites!

Center releases study on newspaper business blogs
“The study, commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, appears to only have covered blogs hosted by newspapers, not other business blogs such as TechCrunch and Sharesleuth.”

Piracy attacks map
Yarrrrg. Pirates. No mashup of ninja attacks. Just a Ninja Turtle projection ads on buildings

A few Long Tail basics for newspapers
“1. Some of your content appeals to many of your readers. 2. Most of your content appeals to smaller groups of your readers. 3. Some of your content appeals to few of your readers.” Good discussion in the comments, too.

Report: 80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content
This is fucking bullshit.

American Copy Editors Headline Contest
“The American Copy Editors Society has announced the 2006 Nationwide Headline Contest winners and the Robinson Prize — awarded for excellence in copy editing…” (via)

The Dip by Seth Godin: Not settling
“I’m having the time of my life and in less than 6 months, I have accomplished more in a small business with minimal budgets than I have in 5 years in a huge bank with billion dollar revenues.”

More fallout from poor newspaper earnings
“‘My sense is this is a real red flag for the industry. Rapid online growth appears to be dimming. That’s a big problem.’ Online ad growth has slowed significantly at Tribune (from 30 to 17 percent), Gannett (30 to 16 percent) and NYT Company (from 72 to 22 percent).”

Journalism & Media Discussion Forum: The End of Journalism?
Yeesh, things in the j-biz are bad… and if you thought you’d domain squat on “end-of-journalism.org” for your retirement, you’re outa luck.

Nexpo is underway, newspapers are serious about video
“As usual, the show floor has lots of neat machines and it is a great place to shop for fun things like presses, inserters, editorial systems, and all that good stuff. This year, though, there are quite a few items on the agenda that pertain to online content, and especially video.” Speaking of video…

why I will read your blog but not watch your video
“Now, imagine throwing video into that mix. By the time I got the headphones on and the video downloaded, I’d be on to designing some new feature (or, more likely, answering more email). I’d only get to hear three words at a time, which just doesn’t seem very satisfying. I can sometimes have podcasts on the in the background, and those are easy to download and listen to at the gym. (I have a working shuffle! I can once again listen to things while I work out! And I can still do email at the same time.) But videos?” (Via) YES. YES. YES. As I’ve said several times before, I support the newspaper industry’s move to producing more video online but the rampant adoption of video as THE ONLY MODEL OF NEW MEDIA/MULTIMEDIA IS DANGEROUS. It’s the same linear format as 20-inch print news stories that is losing readership. It requires time and people to invest themselves, downloading, watching and listening. It doesn’t deliver facts quickly or offer great opportunities for community engagement. It’s great that photo departments around the country are finally getting involved in online, but we must keep in mind that it’s not a very efficient or nimble method of reporting information for both reporters/photographers and readers. Especially when everyone’s increasingly living with time-starved (or so they think) lives or when most newspapers are cutting back costs (yet buying new expensive video gear) and laying off hundreds of workers each quarter.

Battle of the Media Players
“While Adobe Media Player is clearly at least partially an attempt to compete head-to-head with Windows Media Player by offering downloadable content and DRM, the fact that it doesn’t impose Adobe’s brand on the player should create a user experience that is more in line with what consumers are demanding in the Web 2.0 world-access to content and the ability to interact with as few intermediaries as possible.”

E-paper won’t necessarily save the newspaper industry
“I applaud publishers for experimenting with these devices, but I think the best chance for success to is think of the reader/user/consumer first — what do they want, what problem can you solve for them, what job do they need to get done, and then design a content and revenue model that helps consumers first and foremost.”

‘Buying the War’ on PBS
“One of John Walcott’s favorite questions at news meetings is, “But is it true?” This show is a quite good reminder that we journalists, no matter how “slam-dunk” the assertion, must never fail to ask it.”

It is not journalism’s job to be safe
“It is not journalism’s job to be safe or to make the world safe for our consumption. It is journalism’s job to tell us uncomfortable truths.”

Are Janet Robinson and her business team the real problems for The New York Times?
“The real damage and danger comes from the business team. Perhaps they are incompetent, lazy, arrogant and the real problem in this company. The Sulzberger family is only culpable for not firing them.”

Sean Penn Tops Stephen Colbert in ‘Metaphor-Off’
Is this really news? Fake news commentary news? Why’s E&P covering this?

Dow Jones goes digital, digital, digtial
“Dow Jones aims to have less than half its revenue come from traditional print operations by 2009, its chief executive said on Wednesday.”

Dallas Morning News debuts NeighborsGo.com
“Can these alleged community user content portals really replace actual original sites such as placeblogs — at least, the really good ones, already entrenched in their communities? Reminds me of the portal rush in the late ’90s. Most failed.” YES!

5 Quick Tips for Making Online Innovation Happen
“1. Think Small 2. Think Storytelling 3. Think Experiments 4. Think Collaboration 5. Think Workflow ” (via)

Craig Newmark: Craigslist Isn’t a Media Menace
“Maybe papers should focus on better Web sites, delivering the news better through the Net. Paper is just an expensive media. It’s expensive to buy the ink, print the paper and deliver it.” Via romensko

35 Designers x 5 Questions
Take half an hour and read all of this. And add Smashing Magazine to your RSS feeds so I can just assume you’re reading all their awesome articles.

Eight Google Apps in Your Future
“1. Presentation. 2. Project management. 3. Contact management. 4. File storage and sharing. 5. Online discussion groups. 6. Wiki. 7. Video chat. 8. Web meetings.”

2 events worth checking out:

• ONA Regional Conference in Madison, Wisconsin on May 17. Great line up with Adrian Holovaty as the headliner (imho)

• “Drilling Down” in Seattle on May 4 with a hell of a line up.

2 contests to check out:

• Alternative Channel Citizen Journalism Contest
  “$100,000 in prizes. 5 categories. This contest is open to every citizen of the world—amateur or professional, from all ages, from all walks of life, from around the world.”

• Want to Host a Public Radio Show?
  “Public Radio Talent Quest is giving away over $70,000 and a chance to host a new show on public radio via an online contest that allows the public to enter and to vote on their favorites.”

Pagination and Page-View Juicing are Evil
“In the long run, it’s not total HTTP requests that will determine how successful you are. It’s what percentage of any given population’s attention you earn. Don’t blow it by manipulating your readers.”

NYTimes admits photo was altered
“Growing concern about altered pictures in newspapers drew fresh attention today with The New York Times, in an editors’ note, revealing that this had occurred two days ago in the paper.”

National Library Week April 15-21, 2007
It’s national library week, so go hug your local librarians because they rule.
Triblocal
Man, the Chicago market continues to freak overflow with citizen journalism sites. I gotta say this effort from the Tribune isn’t the most impressive. I’m can’t put my finger on it, but ….It looks like a photoshop mock up of a drug company’s website. It doesn’t feel like a welcoming community yet. It should be interesting to watch the market and all the competition shake out. The winner will need to throw out the old journalism model and do this:

Build a network, not a destination
“The kind of network I’m referring to is a web of interconnections — links between content and between people. In essence, I’m arguing that on the Web, news organizations — perhaps, all media — should focus on building themselves “into the clickstream.”

Death and Taxes: 2008
Find out where’s your money is going in this infographic.

And it’s only the first quarter
Lucas breaks the quarterly announcements at media companies.

Nikon D80 Blog Army Update
Nikon’s giving D80′s to bloggers. Kinda like Microsofts’s free Ferrari laptop with Vista, but a bit more transparent. Speaking of blogging ethics…

On ethics, journalism blogging and the brave new world of media
Wil Harris discusses the challenges of journalistic integrity in the new age of conversational media. (via Wil Harris)

Google Phone will launch in 2007
“Taiwan based manufacturer HTC (High Tech Computer) has apparently begun manufacturing the Google Phone, with a shipment of 1 million units to be ready for delivery late 2007.” (via digg)Google to add Power Point style presentations to Google Docs
“While Google has web-based applications for word processing and spreadsheet management, the addition of a Power Point-style presentation application could be the final step in turning Google’s online office suite into a serious Microsoft Office competition.”

Say goodbye to the page view as an ad metric
“The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen NetRatings will drop the page view as a metric to measure web traffic and instead rely more on time spent on a site. ComScore, according to the report, will also begin de-emphasizing page views.”

Audience Measurement: Watch the Cookies Crumble
“Almost a third of Internet users delete “first-party” cookies from their computers at least once a month. Also, seven percent of users delete these cookies four or more times per month, comScore found.”

MySpace visitors to vote on what’s news – Los Angeles Times
“News Corp., which owns the world’s top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network, is introducing MySpace pages today that will present a massive number of articles and blog entries ranked by their popularity among its users.”

Video: Coping through journalism – Roanoke.com
Dude. The entire world is watching. Comb your freaking hair. (Via Ryan Sholin)eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
eBay’s back in the acquisition game!

Poynter EyeTrack07: The Myth of Short Attention Spans
“That was the predominant behavior of roughly 600 test subjects — 70 percent of whom said they read the news in print or online four times a week.” Can’t wait to pour over this report in June. Although, I the normal population is not 70 percent newspaper readers… So I’m not sure if this is exactly a cure all for the industry.

How We See
“A Norwegian study, that showed 16 pictures to both trained and untrained artists used eye-tracking software to show that not only do they see the world differently when drawing it, they also see differently when studying it.”

What is the Future of Text Online?
Writing for the web 101.

Washingtonpost.com Revamps Homepage — Increases Emphasis on Video
“On Thursday The Washington Post’s Web site will unveil a redesigned homepage, which is aimed at simplifying navigation and increasing the site’s emphasis on video and multimedia content.” Check it out here!

Readership Holds Steady in Canada, Online Grows
“A new study from the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank) reveals that 2006 readership levels in Canada are flat compared to the prior year while online readership is growing.”

Young journalists in a print world
“Far, far more troublesome are the journalists my age with not a single skill in their toolbox that would give them any appreciable advantage over a 19th-century newspaper reporter. There are a shocking number of people that fit this There are a shocking number of people that fit this description in our newsrooms. It’s journalism malpractice, plain and simple. So, Step One: Stop hiring these junior dinosaurs.” Right on. I’d add, start firing or ‘laying off’ any dinosaur.

SMS – a sleeping giant with YouTube potential?
“First of all for SMS cell phone text messaging to be successful as a medium that encourages viral message spreading amongst a specific demographic, its use needs to be frequent amongst this demographic.”

For the first Newsroom Barometer, nobody “killed the newspaper”
“In this era of rapid and accelerating change for journalism, the World Editors Forum believes that editors worldwide need sharp and focused information to help them do their jobs.” A 6-part series!

San Antonio Express News Redesigns Print Edition to be More Like Blogs
“First, we are providing readers with a larger menu of items, allowing the front page to be a better window into the rest of the paper. Second, we’re doing more to emphasize and develop our best story of the day, focusing as much as possible on local news…”

Bloomberg Report: Tribune to Accept Zell Bid By End of Week
“An agreement is likely by Tribune’s self-imposed deadline of March 31, said the people, who declined to be named because no decision has been made,” Bloomberg continues. Zell’s offer of $33 a share is 6.8 percent above yesterday’s close. ”

Curleys 7 statements about media
“Quick note from Citygate forum. The picture shows the seven local media strategies from Rob Curley, a man the occurs time and time again in these surroundings.”

Does User Annoyance Matter?
“Making users suffer a drop-down menu to enter state abbreviations is one of many small annoyances that add up to a less efficient, less pleasant user experience. It’s worth fixing as many of these usability irritants as you can.”

Flash to the desktop: Adobe Apollo
“Apollo from Adobe Labs seems worth watching closely. It appears to be an attempt to take widely deployed Flash applications out of the web browser and move them on to the desktop.” Is that Web 4.0? Moving backwards?

The Role of the Journalist in a Participatory, Multimedia World
Good list, but I don’t see anything explicitly about being a watchdog for the community. I suppose it could be covered in being eyes and ears/town square/community pulse/most trusted info possible.

It’s hard to conclude that TimesSelect is a success
“How much money is TimesSelect costing the New York Times? The lost advertising revenue could potentially exceed $10 million annually. It’s hard to calculate for sure, but just in eyeballing it, it seems possible, if not probable. The disparity is certainly enough of a cautionary tale for other publishers considering pay models.”

Three job tips for students
Valuable students embody: 1. Youth itself. 2. Self-taught. 3. Entrepreneurial.Knight launches citizen media resource
“The Knight Foundation has launched a website aimed at helping “citizen journalism” or community media operations find resources and best practices. Called the Knight Citizen News Network…”

The Oregonian’s putting their photos up on flickr
Nice way to market outside of the site. And Flickr can actually handle the traffic, unlike SO FREAKING MANY photo gallery vendors. I bet their photographers are having a fit though.

Time ends Life, again, on 4/20
“Time Inc. announced today that it will close LIFE magazine, but the company will continue to develop LIFE online and operate the brand’s other successful businesses. The issue dated April 20, 2007 will be the magazine’s last.”

10 Newspaper Myths deconstructed
“Old Media dies, because it is too authoritarian. Journalists are not going to die out. The more information we have, the more we need intelligent filters; newspapers should integrate into social media:”

We Missed the Marshmallow Roast
The vandal that damaged a Toledo Blade replacement worker’s vehicle by spray painting and burning it took the time to use an “Old English” font (note the serifs on the “S” of “Scab”). Classy.

onBeing Outtakes – washingtonpost.com
Outtakes from the onBeing show (Via WMH)

Star Wars rap
Language not safe for work

Droid mailbox comes to Santa Cruz
Hot human-on-R2D2 love in this video.

YouTube – Intro to Idiocracy the movie
Stupid people breeding.

Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?
“Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the ‘founding father of personal blogging’?”

The changing skill set for journalists
Funny, a few months ago I peeved off a bunch of people saying some of this…

$13,000 VJ Prize
Might as well hand it to Travis Fox right now.

Best of Photojournalism – TV Winners
Lots of video examples to watch on a rainy day here.

robcurley.com » “The Creativity 50″
“…our take on what a huge hyper-local community site looks like when your local newspaper is The Washington Post, and a local sports site that’s got me so excited I just keep the “Rocky” theme music playing in my office in a continuous loop.”

Super Deluxe – Fark TV – Baby Trade
“Outie for an Audi.”

How mass media tries to pass off crap as news (our new book)
“A drop-dead hysterically funny look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there’s not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. It’s not media’s fault per se, the main problem is that ads have been sold. You can’t sell a blank newspaper full of ads, broadcast white noise bracketed by commercials, or expect people to visit a website full of ads with no content.”