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I'm finding more and more (or maybe it's always been this way?) that the onus for correcting or making sure something is correct, is ALWAYS placed on the last person in the chain.....the individual.
Bezos taking the Warren Buffet approach funding investments through insurance float?
A) has a passing interest in geographic/oceanic/general data topics and
B) doesn't really care how efficient the UI is because they don't live in that world on a daily basis
That said, I also have the opinion that not all websites HAVE to be optimized for mobile viewing. There are instances, such as this one, where the data/information being communicated does not lend itself to mobile and therefore should not be compromised.
To your last point, I think I understand the direction you're coming from, but I have to disagree with the final argument you make. Just because a lot of people died in a tragic accident doesn't mean that we cannot celebrate and utilize information that is a direct result of that tragedy.
The designers of the linked site are not celebrating the deaths of these people, they're sharing and marveling in the data that was produced as an unexpected secondary and tertiary result of those deaths. One does not preclude the other and, I would argue, it would be a disservice those who died to NOT share and learn from the data produced.
Very cool.
Wal Mart is doing some pretty cool stuff with technology. Maybe not on the level of Amazon, which might end up biting them in the long run, but Wal Mart definitely knows their way around a database.