Some of the best Crappy Graphs aren’t necessarily special for their message, but for their creativity.
Here is a recent fan submission from pemang that seems appropriate for today. Extra credit for the intricate details in the explosion!
“end of the world”
by pemang
Now, let’s all go out there and eat some corn chips, hot dogs, and baked beans! Enjoy the day, America!
Email, phone calls, work orders, sales leads, instant messages, anything.
With too much noise, things can get lost. You can get overrun. You need some noise, though, because noise is activity. Somehow, we need to find a balance in order to keep our heads on straight.
When I get hungry, the words that come out of my mouth are often more rude or mean than normal.
Now, I’m not saying this is a model that anyone else should adopt. This is merely an observation of my experience here at Crappy Graphs. I found myself reflecting on the user submission section after recently passing the milestone of 1,000 user-submitted graphs.
As any blogger knows, it takes a considerable amount of work to get a blog off the ground — setting up the site and generating its initial content. Many bloggers may relate to the decline in effort put into a site after a couple of months. It becomes less exciting. It’s no longer something you think about all the time. You end up not going to the site for weeks at a time.
With Crappy Graphs, I decided to create the user submission section. This required much more effort than posting a few graphs here and there. However, once it was completed, I was able to resume the decline of effort and let the amount of content on the site sky rocket on its own.
Since the site launched in June, I have drawn about 20 graphs. A Google search on CrappyGraphs.com shows that the search engine has indexed about 300 pages of content. Quality aside, it would take me years at this pace to come up with that many graphs.
The concept is in no way groundbreaking, but it still manages to surprise and fascinate me.
Dunbar’s Number is 150.
From Wikipedia:
Proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, it indicates the “cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships”.
Thanks to popular social networking services like Twitter, Facebook, etc., users can communicate with others much more efficiently. Before this technology, an avid socialite would have a limit to the number of people he or she could communicate with. Now, there is no limit. On Twitter, the “whales” (people with large numbers of contacts) have thousands of followers. On Facebook, they are hitting the maximum limit of 4,999 friends. With high efficiency communication platforms, there is practically no limit to the number of people a “popular” individual can communicate with.
What happens to someone when they talk to thousands of people at a time? If you wait in line to talk to this person or if you are a small voice in a large crowd of people clamoring for the attention of this person, are you going to be able to have a meaningful interaction? With all the noise, will you have a strong enough signal to hold a conversation of much significance?
Crappy RSS!