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Infographs are Ruining the Internet

by lessallan on 2/1/11, 3:15 PM with 22 comments

• by nollidge on 2/1/11, 3:37 PM

  I don't get it. Is a collection of made-up facts supposed to constitute satire or something?

  > Infographs are usually very pretty, but it's really a gimmick, they're not useful content, it's link bait to get traffic to a blog.

  Why so cynical? God forbid somebody represent data in an aesthetically pleasing manner. If infographics are a gimmick, then so is anything anybody ever does to make their creations interesting to read/view/use.

• by jokermatt999 on 2/1/11, 4:44 PM

  Meh. It's satire, and it does have somewhat of a point, but I feel like it's even more shallow than what it's parodying. It captures the feel of a bad infographic post well, but it does it to the point where I feel like it undermines their own purpose.

  With apologies to Bill Hicks: Ahh, I see what they're doing there. They're going for the shallow infographic satirizing shallow infographics market. Big market there.

• by dasil003 on 2/1/11, 3:33 PM

  Previously ruined: USA Today

• by albemuth on 2/1/11, 4:17 PM

  I wonder for how long derri_hasmi pondered if he should take the $150 at the risk of getting less work in the future.

• by billturner on 2/1/11, 3:26 PM

  Poor spelling doesn't help much either.

• by lou1492 on 2/1/11, 8:42 PM

  They are also ruining our youth! Infographs encourage our lazy society to become even more dependent on graphical stimulation and less competent in reading the printed word. I believe the first infographic was developed in Nazi Germany and illustrated SS soldiers goose stepping.

• by merraksh on 2/1/11, 8:44 PM

  A bad (IMHO) example of infographic:

  http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Typefaces-of-the-world_...

  Stylish, but hardly readable and not very informative.

• by virginiadixon on 2/7/11, 11:45 AM

  WOW! I found only one error. How many were there?