links for 2008-04-17

• BBC NEWS | Americas | US Jewish lobby gains new voice
  J Street will campaign for a two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East. The group is billing itself as a counterweight to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the most prominent Jewish lobbying organisation in the US.
  (tags: bbc jewish-american america jewish israel usa foreignpolicy global middleeast politics aipac jstreet pro-israeli anti-semitic anti-israel conspiracy lobby moveon.org IJV IndependentJewishVoices)
• cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
  An insider note working with Tyler Brûlé and the rest of the Monocle team. Here’s an honest craft of website work, almost deliberately old-fashioned ‘classical’ web design – and how to ally this with innovation in magazine publishing.
  (tags: cityofsound monocle magazine online publishing web design global coverage iTunes podcast audio-video broadcasting video cinematography voiceover aesthetic architecture geopolitics rss feeds editorial photography typography print brand user-generated content EPIServer URL sketches navigation layout interface structure paywall InternationalHeraldTribune IHT newsfeed syndication strategy multidisciplinary specialist abstract fashion QR codes)
• Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)
  Her pieces in “On the Map” focused on Kerouac’s On the Road. The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Jack Kerouac’s literary space — highlighting and noting sentence length, prosody and themes — literary organism & rhythm textures.
  (tags: notcot OnTheMap OnTheRoad StefaniePosavec JackKerouac design visualization art literature books mapping information inspiration analysis infographics prosody theme literary organism rhythm textures space patterns sentence length drawings word count colour coding)