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New BK campaign in Madrid. What are the chances that a “Gracias America” ad would have been used as recently as a few years ago? Pretty much zero, no?

Ad in Madrid metro praising the benefits of taxes. How quaint.

afrographique:

Infographic of foreign investment on the African continent. 100% to scale. Based on data from 2009.

nickturse:

Stratfor provides an invaluable map of foreign energy interests — the big multi-national oil companies — in Libya, including Exxon-Mobil, Shell and BP.  It helps to provide context about Qaddafi’s Libya, the current civil war, the Western intervention and answer questions about who profits and who pays. 

washingtonpoststyle:

“Redistricting Game” = title only a Washingtonian could get excited about.

sunfoundation:

Now you, too, can redraw DC’s wards

Yesterday, the Census released detailed population counts for the District of Columbia. That means elected leaders will start debating how to redraw DC’s wards. You, too, can get involved and do it yourself using our new “Redistricting Game” at http://redistricting.greatergreaterwashington.org.

After an exhaustive marketing analysis, I’ve identified an unmet social networking need that Google can fit. Positioning map attached.

The many unanswered questions of the moral and legal boundaries of cyber espionage. Great read on Stuxnet development and proliferation in Vanity Fair. 

Photo via Al Fin.

theeconomist:

Daily chart: the world’s biggest defence budgets America accounts for 60% of the world’s defence spending. But Saudi Arabia tops the charts when defence budgets are compared to GDP.

Two birds with one stone: more hype over revolutionary tweets AND plastic surgery in Colombia. This blog is rushing to its digital newsstand ASAP.

(Source: theatlantic)

futurejournalismproject:

3: Percent of Cubans that use the Internet frequently

30: Amount, in dollars, in which approved Internet users such as doctors and academics sell their User Names and Passwords to others in order to supplement their monthly incomes.

3,000: Times by which Cuba’s Internet access speed will increase now that the nation is connected to fiber-optic cable via Venezuela.

Source: The Economist - Wired, At Last: The Battle of the Blogs Begins

(Source: futurejournalismproject)