October 2011
24 posts
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Need a formula for becoming power spreadsheet...
Interested in boosting your knowledge of spreadsheet formulas? Paul Bradshaw has a fantastic compendium of handy formulas that actually allow you to achieve things.
Now many of you have probably learned your share of Excel forumlas, and I know a couple here and there. But what would you do to extract just one part of a cell’s data?
Before this weekend, I didn’t have a clue. Now I...
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You want memorable sports drama? Here are my top...
“Growing up or whatever, and you see stuff like that happen, those become memories.” Cardinals third baseman David Freese
Thursday night’s World Series drama in Game 6 between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals made me think back through the sporting moments that remained etched in my memories. Here’s a somewhat-ranked list of the moments that — as a...
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If I was an Android user, these findings from...
This chart from theunderstatement.com doesn’t do Michael DeGusta’s research justice. Be sure to click over to see the full extent of his findings.
My take? Bottom line, regardless of OS or phone used, planned obsolescence has never had it so good.
Data-journo-hacker-mappers navigate through the...
[View the story “Navigating the changes to the Google Maps API” on Storify]
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@storify updates looks, but most important, adds...
There’s a new logo and new look for Storify, but that’s hardly the end of the … ah … story.
No, one of the best tools for curating news and conversations taking place on the web received an elegant makeover courtesy of Burt Herman, Xavier Damman — and many others — and added tools that will make the process of creating much more streamlined and efficient.
Among the new...
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Black Keys release first single from the...
The video is a great to watch, and the song is pretty solid… I like the addition of the “surf” riff, which seems to carry over from the sound of Brothers.
El Camino is out 12/6 on Nonesuch Records.
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Need more reasons to "Show Your Work" and share...
Then make sure you read this…
In a busy corner of the metajournalism world, a crowd of journalists is assembling what amounts to a public, open-source curriculum on how to do hacker journalism. In blogs, tweets, Git repositories, meetups and slide decks, they’re sharing code snippets, tutorials, data sets, How To’s and more, in ways that are often engaging and accessible to non-geeks.
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@ScribbleLive brings LiveArticle embeds to its...
Cool news from ScribbleLive today.
In its infancy, LiveArticle was only available to white label clients, and it sat on top of a liveblog. Now, you can publish a LiveArticle as a stand-along article, and embed it anywhere on your site: no liveblog required. Try it yourself: the embed code sits on top of the LiveArticle in the back end.
Pondering the fate of the QR code, @seanx offers...
Idea one: Scavenger hunt My first idea is a scavenger hunt using QR codes placed around a city. Each clue leads to the next clue but requires the clue before it to make sense, and each clue is placed in an ad for your brand. You initially blast a single QR Code to people via a print ad or email. The program can be scaled to cities across the U.S. and the world, enabling you to have a global...
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Diving in and making sense of Census demographic...
The U.S. Bureau of the Census is the nation’s premier data-gathering and dissemination agency. The bureau, along with sister data agencies such as the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, collects and analyzes data on a wide range of demographic and economic topics. These include everything from the decennial census to tabulations and surveys covering employment,...
Science is hard ... or The benefits of using...
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@GoogleFT offers up several new code samples to...
Every journalists’ favorite data mapping tool from Google has added some new code examples to take advantage of in your Fusion Tables maps.
The samples & available code not only spark inspiration, but provide a nice launching point for going beyond the embedded Fusion Tables map and entering the land of combining Fusion Tables, javascript & the Maps API into a “data application.”
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@wblau & Zeit Online double down on the "browser...
So the company decided to build an HTML5-optimised website for the tablet, and all content for that would be free, while all of its print products on the tablet would be paid-for in a conventional app.
As a result, visitors to its tablet-enhanced website are reading content for longer periods than on its traditional website, and spending more time there per visit. Naturally, Blau says,...
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Easy methods of grabbing a RSS feed of a Twitter...
Over the past year or so, Twitter has gone and made it increasingly difficult to find, isolate and subscribe to RSS feeds of folks you follow.
So why would grabbing a RSS feed of a particular Twitter list be any different?
Turns out, it’s not at all difficult thanks to this post via David B. Calhoun’s blog.
To generate an RSS feed of a Twitter List you have to make two alterations to a...
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Web forms design cheat sheet via Smashing UX...
Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, we are pleased to release the Form Design Cheat Sheet, created by Joe Leech and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This crib sheet contains an Omnigraffle template, as well as Photoshop (PSD) and PDF examples for you to download and use as you wish. Print out the sheet, stick it to your wall, send it to clients,...
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TileMill releases script to map Google...
via developmentseed.org
I’ve not had an opportunity to experiment with TileMill, but hopefully it’s only a matter of time. Even more so now that this walkthrough is out, showing how to use an “add-on script for Google Docs Spreadsheets.”
Often one of the most complex tasks in a mapping project is preparing the data. Before designing the map, developing interactive...
Old business cards are always so much fun to look...
Where you have been gives you a sense of how you got here, and where you are headed.
Touché Siri, Touché
This one’s got a bit of wit.
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If this doesn't inspire action...
Part of the reason I learned to code was that I kept running into journalists who had great ideas but were waiting around for a techie to rescue them.
via lifeandcode.tumblr.com
I used to be — still am — that journalist… But I’m getting closer…
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A week later, a quick look back at #hacktoberfest...
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Now you can embed audio clips from SoundCloud to...
Interactive social storytelling tool Storify announced today that users can add audio clips from SoundCloud to their creations.
SoundCloud joins 12 other content sources that Storify uses:
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Slideshare
Audioboo
Google
BreakingNews.Com
RSS
Disqus
SoundCloud
Flickr
Storify
Via Jeff Sonderman ... a must-remember maxim for...
“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
— Steve Jobs in 1999.
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Via @samgf: Why I Dumped My iPhone - And I'm Not...
When I had an iPhone, the Internet was no longer a destination; it was on me every day, like a piece of clothing I put on first thing in the morning. When I get tempted to return to that life, I ask myself: Do I really want the Internet to be something I feel naked without?
via good.is
Over the past two weeks — while in Europe, where my AT&T iPhone didn’t really work...
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We now re-join our blog, already in progress
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of an experience.
I spent 10 days in Berlin, Germany where I joined 19 others for a week of hacking at what is possible when journalism and open-source software meet open collaboration and html, css and javascript.
I really expected to blog about my time there, the experience of #hacktoberfest and all the great people I met, but a funny thing happened....
