"A picture is worth a thousand word"

Do you believe that?  Can a picture truly tell a story that would take a thousand words?  Sometimes I feel that is very true - some pictures can tell you things that no amount of words can convey.  Take the news, for example.  A print story about the horrors of the tsunami just can not convey the devastation like a photo or video can.

For people who think an picture is worth a thousand words, Internet news sites like Google News must seem very dry - a thousand words and three images (does that equal four thousand words?).  Enter a new way to look at the world.  10x10.  100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale.  http://www.tenbyten.org

Rather than attempt to tell you in my own words, let me link you to the Wired article about 10x10.

-- Matt Ranlett

PS - Another fascinating site by the same people is WordCount - an interactive ranking of all of the words in the English language as found in a sample of "100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written"  I learned from this site that my name "Matthew" appears more frequently than "Microsoft", which appears more frequently than "Matt".  Those Brits sure are silly people!