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1st November 2005

Sparklines

“sparklines are ‘intense, simple, word-like graphics’ so named by information design guru Edward Tufte. in fact, the infosthetics website now features two small sparkline diagrams that are updated hourly, showing data grouped by day over a period of about two months. one sparkline shows live web statistics grabbed from my AWStats log file analyzer files, the other depicts the amount of words used in the infosthetics daily posts.”

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1st November 2005

The Final Days of AT&T

“…So take a long, last look at Saul Bass’s finest moment. AT&T will live on, but its logo is about to disappear. American Telephone & Telegraph was founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Telephone Company to create a long-distance network for Bell’s local operating companies…”

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1st November 2005

The Deck: The new ad network from A List Apart, 37signals, and Coudal

“Advertisers wanting to reach an influential and loyal group of web publishers, writers, developers, editors, reporters and bloggers can now buy an ad that runs across three sites: A List Apart, Signal vs. Noise (this site), and Coudal. There are only five ad spots per month across the entire network so there’s very limited availability but very high visibility.”

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