Davos Newbies

Rebecca MacKinnon: “Jerry Yang, and other Yahoo! executives, please stop claiming that your critics are advocating disengagement. Most of us aren’t. Stop treating the public and your (increasingly former) users like morons. It’s really bad for business. You’ve certainly lost my trust.”

I’m certainly avoiding Yahoo! and its various properties at the moment. I don’t think it will take a lot for this to catch on among young web users. All those people who were motivated into the streets of Seattle during the WTO a few years ago should understand this is a better battle to fight.

Via Marginal Revolution, I found Worldmapper, a fascinating site from Sheffield University. It provides world maps where territories are resized according to the subject of the map. Here, for example, is the map of world population in 2050 (You may have difficulty in finding Europe):

Worldmapper also provides Excel files with the data that generates the maps. A very creative resource to understand the world.