“8. … but looks can be everything: Good design still really matters. Something like this guide to the senior civil service (designed by Guardian graphic artist Jenny Ridley), or who knows who in the News of the World phone hacking affair (produced by journalist James Ball and designer Paul Scruton) work because they’re designed, not by machine, but by humans who understand the […]
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“Social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena. The […]
