What killed the infographic?

Infographics have not gone away. You can see one pretty much every day on the front page of the New York Times. You can see one at every subway station.

What hopefully have gone away are the crappy infographics of a few years ago, which were generally an attempt to present a slick graphic design rather than convey meaningful information.

Also, this sentence is pure drivel: "Periscopic’s Kim Rees suggested that visualization could become a coding language."

I remember the first time someone sent me an infographic if about office design trends. It was pretty neat so I posted it.

After a while it became clear that people were just rehashing 5 data points about something marginally related to my site, but 100% related to the keywords they were link building for. Plus most of the time, the information would probably have been better presented as 5 bullet points of text with real links to the sources.

The same is basically true of guest posting - it was probably once an interesting way to do get a different voice on your site or build a portfolio of writing, but now all it is is a link building scheme which is why I immediately trash them.