Nieman Journalism Lab: NPR’s Infinite Player: It’s like a public radio station that only plays the kinds of pieces you like, forever
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 10:54
“This week, NPR unveiled Infinite Player, a web app that mimics the simplicity of radio, but with a personalized twist. Press play to hear the latest NPR newscast, followed by a never-ending playlist of random feature stories. It doesn’t stop till yo…
Information Weapons: Extreme News Analytics From RecordedFuture
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 11:08
"RecordedFuture … has developed a platform for providing momentum and sentiment ratings around two conceptual abstractions: events & entities. Its system is continually scanning 'thousands of high-quality new publications, blogs, publ…
New York Times Open blog: NYTWrites: Exploring Topics and Bylines
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 12:36
"Irene Ros, a research developer at the IBM Visual Communication Lab, has created a visualization that explores New York Times bylines and topics. NYTWrites uses the Article Search API to show the diversity of topics covered by individual reporter…
Online Journalism Blog: Getting full addresses for data from an FOI response (using APIs)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:47
How to use the Google Maps API and Google Refine to geocode and improve partial addresses in a dataset.
Live map of London Underground trains
Monday, 21 June 2010, 11:55
"This map shows all trains on the London Underground network … The trains move in approximately real time. … Live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then it does a bit of maths and magic. It’s surprisingly okay given this was done in only a few hours at Science Hackday…[by Matthew Somerville et al]"
NYTimes Open Blog: Using the Congress API With Spreadsheets
Sunday, 30 May 2010, 10:03
"If you’d like to use our Congress API but aren’t a programmer or Web developer, you still have a chance. Take the venerable spreadsheet, for example. Standard features of Windows versions of Microsoft Excel and of Google Spreadsheets make it possible to load data from the API directly into those applications."
Media Week: Guardian targets revenue from Open Platform
Friday, 14 May 2010, 14:31
"Guardian News & Media (GN&M), the publisher of The Guardian and The Observer, is to launch its Open Platform venture on a commercial footing this month as it looks to increase its revenue streams and further distance its digital offering from rivals."
Inside NPR.org Blog: The Making of the NPR News iPhone App
Saturday, 22 August 2009, 09:27
"For this app to succeed, however, it couldn't just be a radio-like experience. We needed to create a place for active listening as well…"
NMA: thelondonpaper follows Guardian by opening content to partners
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 16:16
One last great project from a paper that seemed to punch above its weight online: "Thelondonpaper has launched an API allowing selected partners to take its site content and integrate it with their own web applications."
Guardian: Average Twitter user has 126 followers, and only 20% of users go via website
Monday, 29 June 2009, 21:52
"[Only] 20% of its traffic comes through the Twitter website; the other 80% (logically) comes from third-party programs on smartphones or computers. So if you're looking at Twitter stats on your website, you're probably underestimating that source of traffic by a factor of five"
InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture
Monday, 29 June 2009, 15:04
"Since 80% of the Twitter traffic comes through the API …"
ReadWriteWeb: CNET Partners with Thomson Reuters on Linked Data Initiative
Friday, 29 May 2009, 07:53
"CNET … has signed up to use OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, news, and blog posts. CNET has also joined Thomson Reuters as one of the first commercial media companies to publish its data to the Linked Data community on the Internet."
Wordblog: Expenses map shows power of underused reporting tool
Friday, 15 May 2009, 12:29
Andrew Grant-Adamson on that map of MPs' expenses that Tony Hirst made with a Guardian dataset: "The power of mapping as a tool for journalists has been woefully under-used in this country, in part because of the difficulty in obtaining data. … Mapping has become on of the most powerful tools for investigative reporters in the US. In the UK it is much harder to obtain databases but there is also a lack of skill in using the techniques."
Nieman Journalism Lab: NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives through automation
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 21:32
"NPRbackstory uses Google’s Hot Trends data to determine what topics people have suddenly started searching for in large numbers. It uses NPR’s API to search the archives, then uses Yahoo Pipes to create an RSS feed that then gets cycled into the NPRbackstory Twitter account."
