The Weekly Echo 2/3

Happy Friday! Team EchoUser is heading to a happy hour this evening, but first, let's toast to some of the fine links we passed around the office this week. If only we were in New York, we would have loved to see this talk on how "digital forensics" — aka, rescuing old drafts and archived versions of documents — uncovered some of the many changes to what ultimately became the musical RENT. A 5-year-old analyzes logos. Spoiler alert: apparently a lot of companies are cheetahs. Still trying to figure out what Pinterest is all about? We gawked at this infographic that spells out some key facts about the "social pinboard" in a pretty way. On those slickly designed corporate "visions of the future" videos — why they capture our imagination with glitzy production, why they get so much traction, and what they're missing (e.g., depth; informed projections of the future).