Stiglitz 1%

Joseph Stiglitz has been accurate in his predictions, and has provided some of the best policy advice not taken during the Great Recession. In this piece, he writes that the concentration of wealth by the top 1% in the U.S. is not sustainable, and how it is even in their own best interest to avoid too much concentration.

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

The Johnny Cash Project

Of course, Johnny Cash is a legend in country music and, really, music in general. He is one of my favorite people as well, as I think his integrity shines through his troubles.

Now a fitting tribute to Johnny emerges in the form of The Johnny Cash Project which crowd-sources art for each frame of a single song, "Ain't No Grave." The site is very well designed, and interesting from a data (i.e., each drawing is a datum) visualization perspective as well.

As an aside, the CNN article that reports on the project doesn't even provide a link. I had to Google it...I wonder what silly rule they have that prevented putting a simple link in the article.