Dealing with reality vs. infographics
Over the past few weeks I've been wrapping up the beta project for our new business model and, as a result, I've been putting off a lot of writing. So for the next few posts I'm going to be cleaning up the flotsam and jetsam that's accumulated on my desk. First off, Infographics The recent web fad of reducing an argument to a trite graphic is really irritating to me... especially when the position taken is so poorly researched that it negates the senders' credibility. I usually only comment directly back to the sender about the error, but back in March I got an unsolicited email (from someone who did not identifiy what axe they wanted to grind but I was able to discover it anyway) asking me to comment on it in my blog. Here's my comment. What a load of crap. Here's the infographic. Via: Open-Site.org Right from the beginning the hucksters pushing this information start out with a prevarication: that Wikipedia forced Encyclopedia B...