- 04/30/14 - Are You Cynical Enough to Hate Upworthy? - Watching Team Upworthy Work Is Enough to Make You a Cynic. Or Lose Your Cynicism. Or Both. Or Neither. (nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/upworthy-team-explains-its-success.html)
- 04/29/14 - Music Timeline - The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe on the graph represents a genre; the thickness of the stripe tells you roughly the popularity of music released in a given year in that genre. (research.google.com/bigpicture/music)
- 04/28/14 - Original Star Wars Concept Art - Incredible illustrations by artist Ralph McQuarrie. (www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/stunning-star-wars-concept-art-ralph-mcquarrie)
- 04/27/14 - Dead Drops - Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. (deaddrops.com)
- 04/26/14 - Losing Yourself All Over Again - An oral history of the '8 Mile' rap battles (grantland.com/features/oral-history-8-mile-rap-battles-eminem)
- 04/25/14 - Victoria's Coffee Shops - A personal peek into some of Victoria's best Coffee Shops (victoriacoffeeshops.blogspot.ca)
- 04/24/14 - Find Free Images - Some of the best places to find free images online. (dustn.tv/find-free-images)
- 04/23/14 - Wackiest 2014 political videos - So far. (www.politico.com/story/2014/04/wackiest-2014-political-videos-105856.html)
- 04/22/14 - Knight News Challenge - The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding - and support from Knight's network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate. (newschallenge.org)
- 04/21/14 - How Americans Die A fascinating visualization of American mortality rates over the years and across demographics. - (www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-die.html)
- 04/20/14 - How to Solve a Rubik's Cube - The Onion Way. (www.theonion.com/articles/how-to-solve-a-rubiks-cube,35827)
- 04/19/14 - Record Store Day - Today is record store day. Find a participating store near you. (recordstoreday.com)
- 04/18/14 - Time is a Flat Circus - The best of True Detective and Family Circus. (timeisaflatcircus.tumblr.com)
- 04/17/14 - TL;DR Wikipedia - Wikipedia: Condensed For Your Pleasure. (tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com)
- 04/16/14 - Win Without Pitching - Win Without Pitching is the consulting firm dedicated to changing the way creative services are bought and sold the world over, one ad agency, design firm and public relations practice at a time. (winwithoutpitching.com)
- 04/15/14 - First Men on the Moon - Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing. (firstmenonthemoon.com)
- 04/14/14 - Ten words to cut from your writing - I've just got to say, if you really want very amazing writing, maybe you should quite literally cut these things from your stuff. (www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/top-tens/ten-words-to-cut-from-your-writing/article17856428)
- 04/13/14 - How to be a Writer - Aspiring writers often ask established authors, "How did you do it?" The truth is that there is no single path to literary success. We sent a nonscientific survey to writers participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Did they keep a diary as a child? Did they ever have a book rejected? Did they earn a living from writing? We tabulated more than 200 responses to make the board game below. Roll a die and see where the writing life takes you. (graphics.latimes.com/how-to-be-a-writer)
- 04/12/14 - Country Quiz - How many countries can you name in 12 minutes? (www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name.php)
- 04/11/14 - The Heartbleed Hit List - The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now. (mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected)
- 04/10/14 - M+R Benchmarks - The 2014 M+R Benchmarks Study is this year's guide to nonprofit industry standards for online fundraising, advocacy, and list building. (www.mrbenchmarks.com)
- 04/09/14 - Patatap - A portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. (patatap.com)
- 04/08/14 - Data as Culture - Exploring the wider implication of the culture of open data on culture itself, to challenge our understanding of what data is, and how it may affect and reflect our lives. (theodi.org/data-as-culture-2014)
- 04/07/14 - Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone - An initiative to construct a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world, connecting every person, organization, location, count, theme, news source, and event across the planet into a single massive network that captures what's happening around the world, what its context is and who's involved, and how the world is feeling about it, every single day. (gdeltproject.org)
- 04/06/14 - The Social Progress Imperative - Creating a shared language and common goals to align different organizations and achieve greater social impact. (socialprogressimperative.org)
- 04/05/14 - NuCivic - Helping governments and non-profit organizations innovate affordably using open source software. (nucivic.com)
- 04/04/14 - Open Access Maps - More than 20,000 cartographic works made available as high resolution downloads from the New York Public Library. (www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps)
- 04/03/14 - Twitter Politics - An interesting case-study on how Terry McAuliffe's 2013 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia used Twitter accounts to help reach the voters that it most wanted to turn out. (business.twitter.com/success-stories/terry-mcauliffe)
- 04/02/14 - Me & My Shadow - Resources to help you learn about your digital shadow. (myshadow.org)
- 04/01/14 - Atlas of Prejudice - Funny maps and essays about bigotry, paranoia, politics and prejudice. (atlasofprejudice.tumblr.com)
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