Graphics are all the rage on the web. Everyone seems to prefer skimming over a grid of photos rather than reading a block of text, but even the wordsmith in me will admit that there are times when this makes sense. For example, the visual portfolio. If your work translates into a visual medium, that’s how you sell yourself – with examples instead of a resume.

LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that will allow you to upload photos, videos and presentations in each section of your LinkedIn profile.

In this example, Trent has uploaded a few examples of the advertising campaigns he managed while at Dynamic. When someone views his profile, this section shows up right under that section of his work history.  Imagine if you kept this up from your very first job. It would become this mini-museum dedicated to your achievements and that’s pretty cool.

“Facebook has lost nearly 9m monthly visitors in the US and 2m in the UK.” That’s from an article in Sunday’s edition of The Guardian. The author pulled the number from Socialbakers and goes on to say that Facebook numbers are dropping in several other countries including Canada, Spain, France, Germany and Japan.

Maybe and maybe not.

Socialbakers, the source of the data, posted a counter argument today saying that the article in The Guardian is wrong.

We state, quite clearly, on our site that these figures are rough estimates and cannot be used to determine Facebook traffic. Again, we explained this to The Guardian when they published a similar story some months ago.

To other journalists out there, the same thing applies to the UK and US Facebook stats as it did three months ago:

When there’s a helicopter circling my home or I think I felt an earthquake, the first place I go to find out what’s up is Twitter. But here’s the thing – I swear I used to be able to click a button to search only Tweets from people within my local area. That button is now gone. . . or did I imagine it. . .

I can type in my city and the event, but that’s not how people write on Twitter. They don’t write, OMG there’s a police helicopter circling Smallville. They say, OMG there’s a police helicopter circling my house! Without a “local” button, I can’t tell if they’re in Smallville or Spain. (Though I suppose, if they were in Spain, they’d be writing in Spanish.)