I Must Interject Here

Conor Friedersdorf had an interesting item yesterday asking why liberal blogs are more into charts than are conservative blogs. The answer, of course, is that young liberals were all big fans of The Postal Service’s 2003 album Give Up featuring the seminal chart-based breakup song “Nothing Better” (poignant!)

“I’ve made charts and graphs that will finally make it real,” sings Jenny Lewis. And a generation of bloggers learned about the joys of the visual display of data.