Detail of graph showing results of study on the changing mood of pop music (WNYC)
The mood of Top 40 pop songs has turned sadder over the past 5 decades, according to a study of tempos and major/minor keys by Glenn Schellenberg, professor of psychology and music at the University of Toronto. His results are charted below by John Keefe of WNYC in New York. Blue indicates songs in minor keys; the left axis marks tempo in beats per minute. [via Studio360]
Resigned from Google: Monday.
Took reins at Yahoo!: Tuesday.
Had a baby: October.
Marissa Mayer’s daunting challenge to find her rhythm
See how Yahoo! stock is doing.
Click photo to watch her dance.
Endearing digital mashup by John D. Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.
It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing…
Steve Jobs introducing the iPad, March 2011
Color-enhanced satellite photo of Hurricane Irene from NOAA (Aug 28, 2011)
Borders has gone the way of Tower Records, Hollywood Video, Virgin Megastore, and Blockbuster, but happily,
“the best locally-owned purveyors of physical media seem to be in better shape than the soulless megachains. San Francisco’s Amoeba Music, Le Video, and Green Apple Books, for instance, are sprawling, wonderfully quirky independents that are still very much with us.”
See Harry McCracken’s “Decline and Fall of Physical Media Retailing: A Timeline” in Technologizer (Feb 17, 2011)
See also New York Magazine’s list of independent bookstores in Manhattan.
The patented Map of the Market feature from SmartMoney (this view shows Aug 8, 2011) shows more than 500 stocks at once, in rectangles sized in proportion to their market capitalization, and colored green or red according to latest trading activity, up or down.
The visualization is derived from work done by Prof. Ben Shneiderman and students at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab on treemap displays.
From the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, July 2011, during the budget-ceiling debate in Washington. 
This animated chart, from digital music news, shows strikingly the changing contribution of vinyl LPs, CDs and other formats to music industry profits over the past 30 years. 
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