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"High-resolution aerial photos taken over Brisbane last week have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The aerial photos of the Brisbane floods were taken in flyovers on January 13 and January 14. Hover over each photo to view the devastation caused by flooding."

Interactive visualisation of before and after images from the QLD floods.

How would the champs of bygone Olympics fare against today's best sprinters, jumpers, throwers, and swimmers?

"This budget production will hopefully help to explain the Ultranet to even the most technologically challeneged people (like my Mum)."

Here is a low budget production that does a better job of explaining the Victorian Ulranet than all the slideshows I have seen so far. It explains the different rooms of this intranet where parents, students and teachers will interact using the icons from the Ultranet website.

"As a tribute to XKCD's 'Map of Online Communities', we have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community:"

Very nice map of the social networks in the web2.0 space. Has anybody seen the XKCD original version? :-)

"In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy. This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not apply knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them. It is a continuum from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Bloom labels each category with a gerund."

Some interesting challenges fitting this into our new ICT enabled classrooms.

"Online fraud and related crime is on the rise, affecting more lives and costing individuals and businesses more money year after year .. In this infographic, created by Sam Franada of Lines & Moodswings for KGBPeople and based on data from Wikipedia, the I.D. Theft Center and other sources, we learn that 10% of Americans have had their identities stolen .. Check out more facts about identity theft - including the best ways to protect your own identity."

A graphic charting online fraud and identity theft in the USA. It would be interesting to get students to look up the figures for Australia.

Powerful online chart and graphing tool by Google.

Nassi-Shneiderman diagrammer. Structorizer itself has been written by Bob Fisch and is published, since version 2, as open-source under the terms of the GPL license, which means that everyone is free to change the code to fit their own needs as long as the header comments remain intact, so that each code can be tracked down to it's orignal author.

For those addicted to Twitter ...

I put together this Innovation Checkmap.  It highlights the working relationships that should be present in healthy, innovative organizations; a visual checklist to guide an audit of the innovation capabilities in your organization.    The map is simple to use: