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1. Facebook Now Accounts For 1 In 4 Internet Pageviews(?)

Database marketing firm Drake Direct claims that Facebook represents 1 in 4 pageviews in the US. By comparison, Google gets 1 in 12 pageviews using the same dataset.

The data sounds questionable, but it made me think. These days, I probably visit Facebook at least as much as Google. I wonder how that traffic breaks down in terms of Facebook applications vs. socializing? How much of those numbers are games, for instance?

2. The Art of Jim Campbell: Seeing In Pixels

Can you tell what this picture is?

Boing Boing has a great article on Jim Campbell, an artist who works with extremely low resolution images. This particular piece is a video played on an LED board. From the still image, it is difficult to recognize, but add motion and it becomes legible.

Designers use gestalt effects all the time in logos, but we don’t often think about the pattern-inducing properties of motion. Interesting stuff.

3. Know Your Meme

Love them or hate them, Know Your Meme is your one-stop shop to learn about Internet Memes. Considering the subject matter, I found it surprisingly well designed and informative. I wish Wikipedia looked this good.

4. Choose Your Own Adventure

Call it old-school interactive fiction. In a Choose Your Own Adventure book, readers followed a story and made decisions by turning to different pages (e.g. “If you want to follow the troll, go to page 35″). Growing up, I used to read them all of the time.

This CYOA website not only hosts a lengthy article about the books, but full texts with interactive visualizations, as well. Neat!