Where It Stands Blog

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet, Politics on August 13, 2008 at 3:14 pm


Some blogs present information in unusual ways. Jessica Hagy’s Indexed, for instance, cleverly boils down the truth into simple graphs on 3×5 index cards.

Add this to the list: Where It Stands, where conventional wisdom is presented as scales between two opposing values. Here’s a sample post:


Ford announced today it was shifting focus to making more small cars. I don’t know about you but this news feels like 1981 all over again. That was when Ford first felt the crush of smaller, Japanese cars. A strategy they abandoned once they realized they could make big SUVs again. My guess is in another 15 years they’ll make the same announcement.

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7 comments to "Where It Stands Blog"

  1. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    It's like the gas prices. The price goes up, so people don't drive as much (proving it CAN be done). If the price goes down, though, you can bet everyone will be dusting off the Hummers and burning tons of gas again. Sad, really.

  2. davideo71
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    Uh, wouldn't that be in another 25 years?

  3. MichaelinLondon
    August 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    If only this guy wasn't illiterate--he uses 'seen' for 'scene' and 'to' for 'too'. Someone's trying to cash in on Indexed, and I don't think it'll work.

  4. Crimson
    August 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Indexed is clever because it mingles pie charts, graphs, and everything else with the index card wrapping it all up in a neat thematic package. I think that this is a little bit less.. Clear? The graph used isn't as straight forward as the ones indexed uses, and it's not nearly as precise about the points it seeks to make.

    Then again, Maybe it's just my advanced statistics courses speaking out.

  5. Dan Smith
    August 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    This guy is dumb, other readers have already figured that out. He's also somewhat bitter though? (it's a guy right?)

    On a personal note, he also seems to dislike/distrust Obama. I.E. he's racist. lol what?

  6. sparge
    August 14th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    many of these don't even make sense...

  7. Jason G
    August 14th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    I remember all of this from the documentary film GUNG HO starring michael keaton.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/


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