• Author takes the position that infographics are formulaic and give too much information.
• They are difficult and expensive to assemble, and are "driven by marketing budgets rather than editorial discretion".
• Author is applying for a Knight News Challenge on Data grant, and has a Q&A that gives insight to his vision.
• If you want to really have your mind blown, man, check out infographics about infographics.

From the article:

Infographics on the web are so bad and so broken. They are everywhere, yet few actually do a decent job of conveying information (click on the one at left to see what I mean). Some even argue that they are ruining the Internet. They tend to be formulaic and overreaching, often cobbling together too much information instead of focusing on the one or two nuggets that are truly useful. (How much better would most infographics be if they pulled out the most salient chart or set of stats and discarded the rest?)