In a snipet from his upcoming book Tufte speaks to: Sparklines (Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics). Worth a read, if not just to look at the elegant graphics. Strangely, most communicators are word people. We speak in words and draw/write in words. Taking a look at this concept it could be a pretty good framework for putting images back into our communications.
Other stuff:
Who's Building the Next Web? - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com
Newsweek discovers Web2.0 and puts it on the cover.
More on Google Finance. I still don't like it.