Washington Post: Post readers deserve a better online gateway to government data
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:12
Andrew Alexander: "The Post knows it's lagging [in presenting public data online]. Old technology and short staffing are to blame. Raju Narisetti, the managing editor who oversees the Web site, said its decade-old content management system "can't really handle a lot of the databases and open-access information." A state-of-the art system, to be implemented by year's end."
BBC News: The top 100 sites on the internet
Friday, 12 March 2010, 17:34
"Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet."
MinOnline: Hoover’s Mobile App Dials Up a New B2B Model ::
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 14:45
Hoover's launches $29.99 B2B iphone app; "Out of more than 130,000 apps in the iPhone/iPod Touch Store on iTunes, barely more than 1% of them (according to Hoover’s estimate) are business apps. But even more to the point is that business database and directory kingpin Hoover’s is experimenting with a new content and business model that ultimately will inform the rest of what the company does."
Screen: Screen International changes to reflect market needs
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 12:42
"From [March] Screen Weekly will be a new digital product, carrying all the information and news previously found in the print weekly. Screen International will become a monthly magazine with more analysis, industry insight and in-depth box office data. ScreenDaily will continue as the leading daily online source of information for the industry, but has been enhanced with the new database product Screen Base, which offers information about thousands of films being made and distributed in five key European territories."
Manchester Evening News: Locked up in February ‘10
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 23:12
This is probably as close to TampaBay.com's mugshot gallery site as British law allows: "The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month."
Society for News Design: The making of the New York Times’s Netflix graphic
Saturday, 23 January 2010, 12:16
How the New York Times built an interactive graphic based on 1.9 million records of video rental queues obtained from Netflix.
Gawker: Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:59
Ryan Tate: "Learning to program is yet another way journalists are becoming generalists, more like pamphleteer, typesetter, postmaster and newspaper publisher Ben Franklin and his fellow ink-stained polymaths than highly specialized publishing types like Bob Woodward, Annie Leibovitz or Mario Garcia. Your typical professional blogger might juggle tasks requiring functional knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, video recording, video editing, video capture, podcasting, and CSS, all to complete tasks that used to be other people's problems, if they existed at all: production, design, IT, etc."
MediaGuardian: Will journalists of the future need to know how to code?
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 08:57
"DoctorFegg" in the comments: "Of course, in theory you have a digital department to do this. But, well, good luck with that. In my experience the small companies simply don't have the staff, whereas the big ones have an inflexible company-wide architecture that simply doesn't allow for local initiative – look at all those dreary identikit "this is…" sites. It's the same as it's always been. On small titles, whether they're magazines or newspapers, you can't get too precious about your job title. If something will help the magazine, you roll up your sleeves and do it."
The Scoop: The Gift of Data
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 08:36
Derek Willis on providing local context to a national story using data: You can’t provide locally relevant information for a mass audience in a story … That constraint – which still exists on the web, albeit it less so than for print publications – makes it easier to justify working with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows of data to build an interface that allows readers to find out about polluters or drinking water systems close to them."
BBC The Editors: Mapping road deaths
Saturday, 19 December 2009, 12:10
"The web is great at providing an extra level of depth, for those that want it, and so an interactive map enabling readers to see fatal crashes in their police authority area over the past decade looked like an effective way to help show the enormity of the problem."
BBC News: Postcode data to be free in 2010
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 08:24
Fantastic news: "Following a brief consultation, the postcode information is set to be freed in April 2010. … The dataset that is likely to be freed is that which ties postcodes to geographic locations. Many more commercial organisations use the Postcode Address File (PAF) that ties post codes to addresses. Currently access to either data set incurs a charge."
Channel 4: Who Knows Who
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 19:06
"Who Knows Who is Channel 4's new website which shows the connections between politicians, celebrities and business leaders, and where power really lies in the UK. We hope that it will reveal the surprising and often hidden stories behind the headlines. This is the first iteration of an ongoing process to develop this tool to be rich in content and functionality and over time build the biggest network of connections in the UK."
The Texas Tribune: On the Records: A data manifesto
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 11:51
"The Texas Tribune today launches several database applications designed to give readers more information about their government and elected officials — and all in one place."
