Picking Cotton, picking Presidents

An interesting correlation can be seen in the maps below. The top map shows the recent presedetial election results at a county level (the darker the colour the greater the majority) - blue represents the goodies and red the baddies. The second map shows cotton production in 1860, just before the civil war. Cotton harvest and production was of course dependent on African-American slaves.

An interesting comparison give the 148 years between the data used for the two maps.



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Newspapers no longer in the paper business - video

Interview with Michael Rosenblum by Jemima Kiss at the Society of Editors conference in Bristol.

"Newspapers today are in information and journalism business, they're not in the paper business. The biggest weakness in the newspaper is the paper part of it."

I think Michael Rosenblum is spot on. The fact that this video has been posted via Youtube rather than the Guardian's video platform is case in point.

Voodle #8

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Bristol Zoo on a cold wet day. Luckily we were inside.