Last month, I've mentioned that most Twitter users are passive. Now, Check this, some interesting stats about the much-trumpeted Twitter community. visualized.

• red people = dead accounts. dead.
• green people = lazy people, a lot of lazy people...
• blue people = with more than 100 followers.
• purple people = called "Active Users", they're loud, creating 75% of the tweets. (just loud, no followers?)
• grey people = mkandlez said: not dead, non-lazy, not many followers, softly spoken. (zombies?)

OK. Here's a question: Where are the Spammers...? :)

Never mind. I am one of the "blue & a little purple" people, just follow me. :)

Source: Influential Marketing Blog | originally uploaded by mkandlez

John Emerson has collected design manifestos dating back to 1909.

Since the days of radical printer-pamphleteers, design and designers have a long history of fighting for what's right and working to transform society. The rise of the literary form of the manifesto also parallels the rise of modernity and the spread of letterpress printing.

• 1909   The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, F.T. Marinetti
• 1914   Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, Antonio Sant’Elia
• 1919   Bauhaus Manifesto, Walter Gropius
• 1922   Manifesto of the Painters’ Union, Taller de Grafica Popular
• 1923   Topology of Typography, El Lissitzky
• 1923   The New Typography, László Moholy-Nagy - a call for design against the bourgeois, in support of the proletariat.
• 1959   The journal "New Graphic Design," though not explicitly a manifesto, called for a radical rethinking of design along more scientific lines.
• 1964   First Things First, Ken Garland
• 1967   The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
• 1971   La coscienza del designer, Albe Steiner
• 1978   Atlante Secondo Lenin - not so much a design manifesto, as a designed manifesto. The innovative infographics visualize theories for gaining power.
• 1979   Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development
• 1983   The Free Software announcement, later clarified in 1985’s GNU Manifesto
• 1987   Design memorandum. Dall’etica del progetto al progetto dell’etica.
• 1989   Carta del progetto grafico, Giovanni Anceschi, Giovanni Baule, Gelsomino D’Ambrosio, Pino Grimaldi, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Giovanni Lussu, Alberto Marangoni, Gianfranco Torri
• 1990   A Scandinavian Design Council Manifesto on Nature, Ecology and Human Needs for the Future
• 1991   The Social Role of Design, Pierre Bernard
• 1991   The Munich Design Charter
• 1996   Viewer's Declaration of Independence
• 1998   Ne Pas Plier statement
• 1998   People's Communication Charter
• 2000   First Things First update - not just about advertising this time, but setting new values.
• 2000   Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, Bruce Mau (though I thought Dean Allen did a tidy job of demolishing this.)
• 2001   AIAP, diseno etica e comunicazione
• 2001   Socialist Designer's Manifesto - a series of ideologically driven limitations along the lines of Dogme 95.
• 2001   Designers Against Monoculture, Noah Scalin
• 2002   First Declaration of the St. Moritz Design Summit
• 2004   The Free Culture Manifesto
• 2006   The Public Role of the Graphic Designer
• 2006   Free Font Manifesto, Ellen Lupton
• 2006   Owner’s Manifesto, The Maker’s Bill of Rights
• 2007   The Designer’s Dilemma and subsequent Designers Accord
• 2007   1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design, Allan Chochinov
• 2008   White Night Before A Manifesto, Metahaven
• 2009   The Repair Manifesto from Platform21

Apologies :( So like the weather nuts predicted, the party for millions of people hoping to watch Wednesday’s solar eclipse was ruined by heavy clouds and raining in Shanghai. I have not got any pic and vids of the eclipse, sadly. But I got three nice pictures from other parts of China. They're amazing. (You can view'em on my Flickr .) Also you can check out loads of videos on YouKu’s special eclipse page.
When the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century started at 8:30 am (0030 GMT), I did live tweet up(@lyanghsueh), in case you missed it:

• The cloudy sky gets darker, but still no sign of the sun in Shanghai downtown. #
• Shanghai has turned on its street lights. #
• It's raining hard here, can't see the sun, sadly. But darker more. OMG #
• Enjoy this special dark moment... well, we missed the total solar elicpse. Shanghai #
• Gettin' brighter now, a new day starts. Wait! My power, my powers gone. No ;) #

While it may have been a bit of a letdown to not be able to actually see the eclipse, and only experience it through the night-like daytime darkness it gave us for a few minutes, it was cool none the less :)

This summer, those of us living in China have the spectacular chance to see a total eclipse of the sun, a truly rare opportunity because the moon completely covers the sun, leaving a colorful ring around it called a Corona (meaning crown). Thousands of people from the rest of Asia and all over the world will be coming to China to witness the phenomenon. If you have never seen a total solar eclipse, then this is your chance to see this China solar eclipse 2009 from several major cities. This 22nd July will be the only solar eclipse of this kind this year and remarkably, instead of the usual 200 Km spectrum of visible areas, there will be 254Km, providing a magnificent area from which to view the eclipse from Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou,Wuhan, Nanjing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Suining and Yichang. You have plenty of options to choose from if you want to go and see it yourself. The eclipse will also be visible for a full 6 minutes and 39 seconds, which is the longest visibility period of the 21st century.

This coming 22nd July, (If the weather's good) I'll put some real pics and vids of the eclipse into my blog, and live tweet from my twitter account : @lyanghsueh, welcome to follow!

Warnings: Never view the sun with the naked eye!