The BBC has published a very snazzy, interactive map showing how internet penetration has deepened and spread across the globe between 1988 and 2008.
A simple slider enables you to skip through the years, picking out landmark developments at different intervals. Surprisingly, given its size and dominance today, China’s relationship with the internet didn’t start gaining serious [...]
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Visualising the internet
Darren Davidson - March 8th, 2010Twitter outage during Superbowl silences voices
Darren Davidson - February 8th, 2010One of the curious things about Twitter is that the service doesn’t always deliver on what you’d expect from something that is endlessly talked about.
Amid the hype, celebrity endorsements and impressive growth rate (although the steep curve has flat lined of late), it’s sometimes forgotten that the company is essentially still quite small.
According to reports, [...]
BBC ‘Life”- Latest clip goes to town with sound FX!
Kirk H - December 3rd, 2009Over the last 8 weeks we’ve been working on getting preview clips of the BBC “Life” Nature series out to wide online audiences.
The latest clip has just gone live and I had to post it- the guys at the BBC have added some great sound FX to this footage of Venus Fly-Traps doing their thing. [...]
