Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

Here's a couple weeks worth of my favorite links, photos, and videos from my Tumblr blog.

On a related note, I've started using Google Reader (switched from Netvibes) so that I can contribute to this little experiment that Bud Caddell and Undercurrent are cooking up. I've been sharing a lot of stuff over there; if you're interested, check out my shared items feed and add me add me as a follow so that I can see what you're sharing, too.

Charlie Todd, creator of Improv Everywhere, visited Vienna and took this funny picture.




Learning the basics of typography is a very underappreciated skill for anyone who's interested in communicating thoughts. Here's a handy round of of 10 Common Typography Mistakes, like lengthy lines of text:




This video is ridiculous.




Have you seen Al Franken draw a map of the U.S. from memory, yet?




Lots of good Facebook stats with sources listed here. A few of my favs:

• More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day.


• More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide).


• Facebook users are adding photos at a rate of 1 billion photos a month.

David Carr did a very cool evolution of my Spectrum of Online Friendship diagram.