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Upfront Best Bits Reel Danger

British National Treasure Michael Palin, at the tender age of 81, releases the latest volume of his best-selling diaries. Amid the launch PR lamenting, with disgruntled missed-chance bemusement, how his quarter-century BBC career of (hugely popular) traveloguing ended. His last series for them being about Brazil in 2012. Since when

Then And Now Slide

Edward Tufte would be proud. A trailblazer in how to present data. Among his many guideline presentation concepts, he cited his Magic Number. This related to when you ought use a numeric table, or a chart. I often see a presentation slide with a graphic when nicely listed numbers would

Your Unique Diagram

I got reminded of all the options listed in my book, 101 Diagrams That Sell. Someone working on a presentation deck (yes, salespeople are still doing so) was busy constructing bulleted points of steps. There's such a striking switch open here. From text to image. Swap words for a pic.

National Convention 24s

These quadrennial American party conferences can be quite the timestamp. Showing where we're at with the mass glitzy presentation. They always seemed to me following on behind the latest big arena pop extravaganza staging. We're a long way on from a simple lectern on raised platform in front of tall

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

△ Beats Z

Very interesting segments of this video showing two parts: One being the commonly found present White Triangle + Number (likely Btln/Cpn) used in units in the Zapo region: https://t.co/2i2Selp1BH pic.twitter.com/CVk9DOjWw5 — poe (@poetaetrr) August 27, 2023 I just read an encouraging London broadsheet assessment; The

Olympian World Map

It’s a map!! #ParisOlympics #ClosingCeremony pic.twitter.com/a1zc8tw0uH — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024 Catch the ponderous, overlong, disjointed and inferior sound quality of this year's Olympic closing ceremony. There were thankfully the odd decent moment or two. Yet too few and far between to justify three

Venue Recce

SCOOP: For his events, President Biden's staffers prepare a short document with large print and photos that include his precise path to a podium, according to an event template the White House sends to staffers. https://t.co/Zw5252NmHH — Axios (@axios) July 7, 2024 Quite the month in American politics,

Image Annotation for Detail Spotlight

A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills. Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW — Haraz N.

Dactylonomy Impression

Mainstream media revelled and shrieked in equal measure about a young podcaster with supposedly around sixty thousand downloads an episode nabbing an interview with the former British PM pictured above. Whether you're a fan or not - and strangely even those from his curve of the horseshoe appear to have