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Chicago Tribune Magazine: Cyberstar

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 08:41

A long interview with Adrian Holovaty about Everyblock. "In Chicago, we've got 14 types of information," Holovaty says. "We're creating an ordered view of chaos. That's what journalists do, right?"

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 Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 21:40 Comments

"Journalism has several subdisciplines — photography, information graphics, video. I advocate that computer programming should be another one of those subdisciplines."

 Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 15:47 Comments

The Palm Beach Post’s new neighbourhood-level hyperlocal (sorry, WMH) site.

 Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 06:35 Comments

PDF of a Lawrence Journal-World presentation on building database journalism projects, including their recent piece on crime rates in university halls.

 Saturday, 16 February 2008, 11:27 Comments

Brilliant interview with Adrian Holovaty about Everybock. Looks at some examples of how data reveals stories, plus some more on how it all works, plus how public data and news geotagging needs to be standardised.

 Thursday, 23 August 2007, 09:17 Comments

PolitiFact is a politics web site "inspired by Adrian Holovaty’s manifesto on the fundamental way newspaper websites need to change."

 Friday, 6 July 2007, 12:44 Comments

Amy Gahran: "[T]he content management system (CMS) any news org chooses can end up making or breaking its online efforts." Question is: clunky legacy product that is designed to support print repurposing or a newer online-centric system?

 Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 20:49 Comments

Adrian Holovaty is leaving the Washington Post to found a hyperlocal news startup, EveryBlock.