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Media companies today have the power to aggregate all available news and information about a media event, and so do readers. The news outlets that make readers do that legwork will lose popularity. Kudos to Mother Jones for taking advantage of Dipity.com’s visual aggregation services: To help keep track of the events, we’ve put together [...]
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BP’s Suttles: ‘Top Kill’ Effort Hasn’t Stopped Oil; Leak Meter Restarted | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS
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Finally a silver lining in the gulf oil leak story: Adm. Allen: Gulf Oil Leak Suppressed For Now; Leak Meter Stopped | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS Here’s some more info on the “Top Kill” technique that seems to have worked to stop the oil leak: Watch Animation of the Oil [...]
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Here’s an infographic that tries to sum up everything about the BP oil spill. View the full-sized version made by Infographic World.
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PBS NewsHour has an awesome live video stream of the oil leaking out of the Deep Horizon well. They also have a running leak estimate calculator (also available as a widget, see right) that conveniently provides a variety of gallons/day guesses…because if anyone knows for sure how much oil is being leaked, they ain’t telling… [...]
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Gapminder.org has awesome infographics! For example this moving graph of Oil Consumption vs. Oil Production by country, 1965 to present: Gapminder World
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Way back during the primary race, Sarah Palin chats over a webcam about the Republican candidates and how much Alaska’s oil and natural gas could “help” our energy prices. She wants to drill it dry, people! Once we do that how much will the Middle East and Russia be able to charge us for those [...]
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Some friends of mine recently went to Venezuela, or the country that Bush wants us to think is the CCCP of South America: VENEZUELA ’08 – a photoset on Flickr
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