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Shock! World’s largest drawing is a fake!

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

A lot of people in the last week posted the above image on their blogs and in news stories with the story of Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar who… …sent a briefcase with a GPS tracking device around the world via DHL. The route the case took, as tracked on a map, became the strokes of [...]

 

Internet attention to disasters

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

After the devastation caused by the natural disasters this past couple of weeks here are a couple of internet stats sources to see what people are writing about and searching for online. Blog Attention via Data Mining Increase in Australian Seach Requests (week ending 10/05/2008) ‘myanmar’ (620%) ‘burma’ (3675%) via HitWise