Digital ‘Cloud’ could form over London for the 2012 Olympics: Engadget
…We’re talking about an actual (well, artificial) cloud that promises to be both a real structure and a massive digital display. That’s the bright idea of a team of researchers from MIT, anyway, and it’s now been shortlisted in a competition designed to find a new tourist attraction to be built in London for the 2012 Olympics. Dubbed simply “The Cloud,” the structure would consist of two 400-foot tall mesh towers that are linked by a series of interconnected plastic bubbles, which would themselves house an observation deck inside and be used to display everything from Olympic scores and highlights to a “barometer of the city’s interests and moods” outside (that latter bit comes courtesy of the group’s partnership with Google).

“Trillions”
trillions of networked computers representing all scales of information and objects will make up the edgeless ecology of information that we’ll be floating in.
Books and Libraries in the Digital Age: Robert Darnton discusses the ocean of digital information. From MIT’s Distributed Intelligence.
Infographics news: Visualizing crowdsourcing: Trendsmap
We all know nytimes.com is an innovative newsroom. A good example of that is this Twitter map of the Superbowl. The location of the tweets during the match showed very interesting. And now, these kind of solutions with Twitter can be found on Trendmaps, a trendtopics visualizator for this microblogging service.
Data Visualization: 50 Years of Space Exploration (via Adam Crowe)
Check it out in original — 3861 x 1706 — dimensions
Space Age Volcano Monitoring Network - JPL, NASA:
Scientists have placed high-tech “spiders” inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used to respond rapidly to an impending eruption.
IBM to Apply Analytics to War on Terror - BusinessWeek
Can the analytic science that powers operations at Wal-Mart and Federal Express make inroads against terrorists? IBM (IBM) is going to give it a shot. Big Blue’s Global Services Div. just landed a five-year, $20 million contract to apply its analytical know-how to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the key military force in the battle against terrorism.
M2: extending business intelligence through web data
Massive Mashups (M2) is an extension of the mashup paradigm that:
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.