"GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects. People check code in and out, make edits, etc. Franck Cuny maps this community (with Gephi), based on information in thousands of user profiles.
The above is a map colored and sorted by the main language of each person (PHP, Python, Perl, Javascript, or Ruby)."

"In the last two months, involuntary part-time employment has increased by 738,000. See Table A-8. This implies that either (1) more people who were already employed have been reduced to part-time status or (2) part-time positions are being added to payrolls."

"When complex systems collapse, it starts by people simply wandering away, going over the hill. They don't pay their taxes to Rome anymore. They ignore copyright protections. They accept inferior web hosting for $6/month from some low rent company, instead of paying AT&T $60. They make videos with a Flip camera instead of a $20,000 Betamax."