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June 2, 2009, 6:44 p.m. | FOLLOW @NIEMANLAB ON TWITTER
Curious to hear more about your reaction to the GOOD visualizations. I agree that they’re gorgeous and incredibly stylish. Do they really convey information effectively, though? After flipping through the whole set, I don’t feel like I walk away with salient facts about the world; instead I walk away thinking “wow, GOOD is so cool!”
Which is totally fine as an outcome, but maybe not their objective. :-)
Are you using a program to post these recent tweets to the blog or doing this by hand? I think this is a great concept. You guys share some real gems.
Robin, I think that’s a fair criticism, and I’ll admit to being taken a bit in by the pretty. Many are not visualizing much of anything so much as presenting text in, as you say, stylish designs. But in fairness, “visualizations” was my word. GOOD calls those things “transparencies.”
And, Patrick, thanks! Really glad you find it useful. I’m not using a program for these Twitter posts, but I’ve tried to automate the process as much as possible: I built a Yahoo Pipe that takes the RSS feed from Twitter and marks it up with links on the URLs and handles and adds a double angle quote at the end that links to the original tweet. From there, I’m copying and pasting into WordPress and publishing with a special Twitter category style that Josh created. —Zach