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November 23, 2004
Word to Power: 10x10
10x10, a sort of visual Google News, presents an interesting example of information design.
However, as 10x10 claims to present the world according to the Beeb, the Old Gray Lady, and Reuters, does it function so much as a definition of the time, or as a commentary on the powerful control of corporate news? It seems like such a small sample, and we're still relying on the big media companies to edit the world into our front pages. For a hundred possibilities, perhaps it is telling that there were only four discrete images on display in a recent visit. In essence, what our minds intake about the world is still seen through the filtered glasses of Reuters et al. This being a Kantian critique, our knowledge of what exists is thereby determined by these companies. How about a 10x10 that exposes visually what is not being covered by those companies?
How to design something more democratic, more exposing of the phenomenal?
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Posted by Noel at 03:21 PM
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