July 2011
18 posts
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On the newsroom change agent, or how the squeaky...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
Last week at lunch, my cousin and I were talking about how as a kid she would head into the yard and kick around a playground ball for...
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Tips for leading collaborative teams and making...
If you hope to achieve things you’re gonna need help from others. Whether you want to build a content-first media organization, or re-think how news is gathered and presented, you can’t do it alone.
So once your idea or process or app is given the green light, and the ball starts rolling forward, how do you effectively communicate and win over the skeptical? How do you go from...
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Iteration and Journalism: A #MozNewsLab...
Thanks to Jordan Wirfs-Brock for putting the following together here.
[View the story “Iteration and Journalism: A #MozNewsLab Discussion” on Storify]
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Stretch run of the #moznewslab has me stretching...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
What’s a 35-year-old man to do over the weekend when his wife is out of town? What else — Pretend he knows how to develop a...
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nwsmkr - Visualizing the connections between the...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
Before I head to Best Buy to look at consumer technology I thought I’d share some thoughts on news technology, as it relates to the...
Well, if you put it like that...
“The next medium, whatever it is – it may be the extension of consciousness – will include television as its content, not as its environment. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organisation, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip it into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind.” —...
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Hack, hacker - makes no difference
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
I remember the shock of it all, when I learned the bar to coding a basic webpage wasn’t that high. Three years later, I’m...
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Every idea needs a diagram, and every diagram...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
…But what is the thing in this case?
I’ve asked myself a lot of questions… I think I have some inkling of the answers,...
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According to visual.ly and it's Twitterizer I'm...
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Old Twitter Email shows 160 users after three...
Good News!!
Our short code 40404 has now been approved and implemented on most carriers. Verizon, who we were concerned about, cleared yesterday. It looks like we will have the code tested and working on all carriers by mid next week. What does all this mean in the big Ol’ timeline of life? Well, I’ll tell ya. It means that we are one week away from a vocal, visible, actual...
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When I'm mobile, don't give me what you give me on...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
It’s hot up here in Wisco. Well it’s not so much the heat as it is the humidity. Hey, kind of like it’s not so much the...
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Something is happening and you don't know what it...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations.
My wife mentioned the other day that I could learn a thing or two about minimalism and she’s right. For years, as I’ve compiled...
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@knowtheory: Visual.ly does have a fantastic terms...
I think we can all relate to this. Visual.ly made a quick change to their terms of service while I was signing up today.
This is what I found when I first went to register.
This is what I found 30 seconds later.
The traffic Visual.ly is receiving now must be incredible as I can’t get an account created.
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Getting down to the job... The start of the...
Through some fortunate confluence of events I was one of 60 people selected to participate in this year’s Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, a four-week lecture series designed give people a chance to take an idea from inception to application … one that just might shape the future of online news.
As regular blogging about the lectures is a requirement you should see a bit more from me in...
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Mapping data: Wisconsin state senate recall map
View the updated map
Tuesday is the day when six Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents will compete in a recall primary against six “protest” candidates fielded by the GOP.
The general election between the winners of the Democratic primaries and the six incumbent Republicans is Aug. 9.
In an attempt to visualize the recall contests, I came up with this map built with the...
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Mapping data: Wis. Supreme Court voting, Madison...
The last month has been one of enjoying some summer sun and some new found free time, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been learning going on. Thanks to guidance and suggestions from Jon Davenport, John Keefe, Christopher Groskopf, Brian Boyer and so many others, I’ve developed some skills at making data maps via Google’s Fusion Tables and the Maps javascript API.
My...
