WikiLeaks resources

The Guardian: WikiLeaks Embassy cables with graphic data + Map & Database
Spiegel online: WikiLeaks diplomatic cables
Infosthetics: WikiLeaks cable gate visualisations & infographics

iPad research

WIRED on iPad: Oliver Reichenstein's article for Information Architects
UX mag iPad user experience guidelines
iPad Magazine Art Direction on Vimeo
iPad, magaznes, and Nespapers – an open letter to S. Jobs (The Apple Press)
iPad is not a Magazine by Milind Alvares
Magazines on the iPad II
Wired: iPad will solve all magazine publishers' woes
Adobe: Introducing WIRED on iPad
iA's Flickr photostream
What the iPad is missing by Stephen Coles for FontFeed
A Popular Misconception

The way to the Web, Print designers!
Dear designer, you suck!
Web design is 95% Typography (iA article)
Designing for iPad: reality check (iA article)
WIRED online: The Web shatters focus, rewires brain
Web typography

volcano

some hilarious pictures of the icelandic volcano:
boston news
NY times
olivier vandeginste – photographer

just seeds...

"Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society."

last hours

'Last Hours is a resource focusing on ‘creative resistance’. This can be many things including zine writing and DIY culture, anti-capitalist music and squat parties, or protest and revolutionary activity and probably much much more.'

read RUSSIA!

online + print magazine about Russia we don't know (based in NY)
also available via STACK website (6, 8, or 12 magazines sent altogether £3 each, incl. GOOD)

range of ISSUES for NEWS project

EARTH & WORLD:
• World news (oneWorld)
• biodiversity & who cares? (environmental)
• climate change & global warming, climate change (oneWorld)
• Asian earthquake & tsunami disaster
• Second Genesis: life, but not as we know it, Second Genesis: the search for shadow life (+ slideshow), Second Genesis: making new life, Extreme life forms, Genetics, Evolution, How to hunt for shadow life
• Light pollution: Q&A, environmental protection source, lightpollution.org.uk: wasted light, light pollution atlas, night sky, Wiki, need-less light pollution, light nuisance, BBC page,
Skyglow/light pollution in UK, UK LP maps, Naked eye dark sky visibility, Night sky info, Light cost calculator
• Recycling, Environment agency, light & health, environment: pollution
• Live Earth map

SOCIETY&CULTURE
• poverty: facts & stats, children's deaths
more:
- Where and why?, Poverty around the world,
• Health issues, Diseases: ignored global killers, WHO statistical information system, Global health overview, UNICEF: unite for children

ECONOMY&POLITICS:
• global financial crisis
• global foreign aid shortfall
• corruption
• economic democracy, + The Institute for Economic democracy
• Iraq war

2012 OLYMPICS

London 2012 Olympics UNofficial site
Official site

Global Issues

globalissues.org
Global dimensions: Refugees
Global perspectives

ENVIRONMENT

Alternative energy designs creative environmental Ads
Image archives for energy & fuel
Biomass & thermal power designs
archives for news & politics
Alternative & fossil fuels
Carbon credits
Earth system research laboratory
WWF: Witness Stories of climate change & climate action
Meltdown: a global warming travelogue (photographs)

The C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group
Earth911.com
100 most essential green web resources
10 of the world's dirtiest powerplants
15 cutting-edge biofuel sources
12 films with dystopian depictions of Earth's future
7 alternative fuels & fuel-powered vehicles 5 alternative ways to power your home
15 mind-boggling green facts & enviro-stats
25 essential green tools, apps & resources
25 greatest green blogs
16 painless green habits
15 tips, tricks & hacks for a greener home
16 hydroelectric, wave & tidal power designs
25 solutions to 7 most common green living challenges
10 of today's most important environmental issues

Beginner's guide to going GREEN
Going green :Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Going GREEN: smart consumption
Going green: sustainable transport
Biofuel (Wiki)
Renewable energy sources (About.com)

RECYCLING
Wastes
We count calories, why not Carbon?
Carbonventures
World recycled materials perspectives

UX magazine

more economy&politics

counterpunch
prudent bear
democracy now
MUTE mag - culture and politics after the net
michael hudson
'break their naughty power'

crisis in the credit system

online research art-project

"Crisis in the Credit System is a four-part drama dealing with the credit crisis, scripted and directed by artist Melanie Gilligan. A major investment bank runs a brainstorming and role-playing session for its employees, asking them to come up with strategies for coping with today’s dangerous financial climate. Role-playing their way into increasingly bizarre scenarios, they find themselves drawing disturbing conclusions about the deeper significance of the crisis and its effects beyond the world of finance.

Using fiction to communicate what is left out of documentary accounts of the crisis, the short, TV-style episodes reflect the strangeness of life today in which the financial abstractions that govern our lives appear to be collapsing.

Crisis in the Credit System, commissioned and produced by Artangel Interaction, is the result of extensive research and conversation with major hedge fund managers, key financial journalists, economists, bankers and debt activists."

a few news

Mac vulnerability to botnets proven in real-world case
NASA images sent with Voyager
Knight news challenge

reporters sans frontieres

RSF - La liberté de la presse au quotidien
+ english, español, arabic, chinese languages

censorship & freedom projects

CPJ – Committee to Protect Journalists
Great Firewall of China – test if the website is censored in China
"Because of the ever stricter measures of censorship China imposes on the Internet, the team of www.greatfirewallofchina.org at present can no longer vouch for the reliability of its test tool. We have therefore decided to take the test tool offline."
ChoicePoint – intelligent solutions
opensource.org
Creative Commons
fsf.org - free software (Linux)

SEED magazine: universe in 2009

just what to expect from this year
+ article on pie charts

online subculture

microblogging.com
microblink: news
webcom microblogging article
quantcast.com: twitter demographics
twitter services

the online slang dictionary
lingo2word
lagkills.com: acronyms
internetslang.com

compuserve.com

more news design resources

innovation in newspaper design
visual journalism
infographics weblog

main news sources

The Economist
NY Times
– Opinionator
– BITS
– Global Opinion
– Environment
– Energy&Environment
– Green Inc.
– Global businesses
– Economix - explaining the science of everyday life
– Schott's Vocab - misc. words & phrases
– The Board
– Visualisation Lab
The Guardian