links for 2010-02-04

Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography

If I had any design talent at all, I would make infographics all day long.

(tags: infographics information visualization data)
Fitbit

Courtney told me about this at lunch today. I am lusting after the personal data collection capabilities of this marvelous gadget. As I understand it, you wear the device all day long and it collects data about your sleep patterns and activity levels. And it syncs wirelessly!

(tags: fitness health gadgets sleep exercise tracking technology)
librarian.net » Blog Archive » when good librarians go bad, geniune options in librarianship

From this excellent blog post: "Where do we draw the line between enforcing other people’s rules and solving problems with our patrons? Now that we’re getting more and more networked, this whole idea of local content works for some things [historical photos, town history] and not for others [journal articles that are held in thousands of libraries worldwide]. Do we have a plan for moving forward?"

(tags: copyright libraries research)