Get a quote, make a point. OK, this is really clever. The idea is that you type in a number, and it comes back with something to give it real scale. For example, in my blog post about Twitter trouncing traditional media the other night I used the figure of 130,000. Now, it's a nice figure by itself, but if I'd then added in .. 'and that's almost as many medical and public health social workers employed in the USA' it would certainly have give it a little more power.
It's not perfect by any means - it likes to provide population figures, Alexa ranks, references to burgers (26 quarters would weigh as much as 1.36 McDonald's Big Macs) which isn't that helpful, and x number of this would buy y number of that. However, if used sparingly it could really add something extra to a presentation.
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It's not perfect by any means - it likes to provide population figures, Alexa ranks, references to burgers (26 quarters would weigh as much as 1.36 McDonald's Big Macs) which isn't that helpful, and x number of this would buy y number of that. However, if used sparingly it could really add something extra to a presentation.
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