are you the next big dead thing?

Of the 2 types of people in this world -- those who create charts and graphs for fun, and those who don't -- I definitely seem to get on better with those who do.

One such person is Richard Watson at trend lab Now And Next. I haven't ever met or spoken to him, but basically, he makes massive and not entirely serious graphs with somewhat arbitrary y-axises for a laugh, which makes him absolutely sound in my book.

He's the guy who did that way cool Trend Blend tube map you might have seen. Anyhow here's his latest, an Extinction Timeline, showing what ideas and things will die out, and when. I like it, don't understand the reasoning behind some of it, which I suppose makes you want to talk more about it.

real time twitter map

Twitter mapped realtime onto Google maps. There is something about global maps with realtime information on them that is really sweet, especially when each blip is a real person doing something. I can imagine a lot of fun games and apps you could create using this.

Link to it here at Twittervision