The new site is up and running, we want to thank you for your patience. This blog address will no longer be used but we will keep it up for a while so people can find their way to the new site. We've consolidated the blog and the site where we posted graphics into one. The old website is still there, so your bookmarks will work. We thought that this might work better for us, and enable more

Sorry for the slowdown just when we had our biggest hit with the Natanz graphic. The surge in traffic and its validation of our concept has pushed us to make a decision we'd been contemplating for a few weeks. In order to improve our traffic, ease posting and vastly increase the tools available, we're working to consolidate the GraphicLens.com site and GraphicLens.com/blog so all graphics will

Thanks for stopping by. We've only been at this about a month so there isn't much to look at yet. We're trying to cover stories the mainstream/antique/dinosaur/legacy media ignores. There are lots of excellent analysts and researchers in the blogosphere with vital and interesting stories to tell. Some of the stories, like the construction at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant, can use an assist from

Here's a quick graphic showing the defensive sites around the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran. The graphic we posted yesterday shows construction progress and site details. Click on the items in the legend at the top to see their location on the graphic.

DigitalGlobe's satellite imagery and GlobalSecurity.org's analysis provided the materials we needed to put our skills in informational graphic design and Flash to work on our new interactive graphic. Our goal was to show the amazing defensive measures and what's really undergound at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. This is exactly the kind of collaboration we're hoping

This interactive Flash map shows that most of the top national media headquarters are in counties that voted for Kerry in 2004. Most journalists working in the national media live in large metro areas that voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. Maybe this has something to do with the perceived and measured liberal bias in the mainstream media. We sat down Friday evening and decided to do a

Acknowledgement of bias within the mainstream media runs the gamut from vehement and absolute denial to smug acceptance. Several studies have documented the fact that the media's credibility is declining. This UCLA study tries to measure the amount of bias. A teeter-totter seemed appropriate to illustrate the imbalance. Some have criticized the study for showing Drudge and the Wall Street

Now that the GraphicLens blog is up we're actually posting on our earlier graphics. In our first graphic the point we tried to make, probably too subtly, was that the Pakistan/Kashmir earthquake, extremely tragic though it is, provided an opportunity to broaden perspectives in an area where Islamic terrorism breeds. The inspiration came from a post at Security Watchtower.

The right tools make the journey from concept to publication much more enoyable and have a direct impact on productivity. At GraphicLens we're acquiring and using the right tools as we can afford them. Today we took a giant leap forward by adopting Avenza's MAPublisher to generate vectored maps from GIS data. The improvement is amazing. The Pakistan Earthquake map, our first graphic, was built