Holovaty.com: EveryBlock acquisition and me
Monday, 17 August 2009, 22:04
Adrian Holovaty: "EveryBlock, the project I've led for the last two years, has been acquired by MSNBC.com. … this has no effect on the EveryBlock open-source code (ebcode). The code as released on June 30 will continue to be available."
Poynter Online: How EveryBlock Code is Being Used to Develop Location-Based Journalism
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:02
"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism — the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet — was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."
The EveryBlock source code
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 07:15
"EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a 'microlocal' level — by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 07:56
"With EC2, the Guardian could order server time as needed, rapidly scaling it up for the launch date and down again afterward. Thanks to EC2, [Simon Willison] guessed the Guardian’s full out-of-pocket cost for the whole project will be around £50."
Guardian: The breakneck race to build an application to crowdsource MPs’ expenses
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 16:28
"Developed in just five working days and with a last-minute rush when Parliament used unusual formatting, the Guardian's microsite for analysing MPs' use of your money is ready"
twitian.co.uk – people at the guardian who use twitter
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 06:56
Paul Carvill's nice aggregator of Twittering Guardianistas (via Journalism.co.uk).
NYTimes.com: Represent
Sunday, 21 December 2008, 07:50
Find your elected representatives in New York City. … And what they're up to.
Los Angeles Times: Databases, Lists, Maps, Rankings – Data Desk
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 16:23
The LA Times' data desk's server: "Maps, databases and other resources that help you dig deeper."
OJR: Building the data desk: lessons from the L.A. Times
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 16:19
Eric Ulken: "In this post, I'll try to squeeze some wisdom out of the lessons we learned in the process of assembling the Times' Data Desk, a cross-functional team of journalists responsible for collecting, analyzing and presenting data online and in print."
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?"
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 21:40
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"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
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The Palm Beach Post’s new neighbourhood-level hyperlocal (sorry, WMH) site.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 06:35
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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
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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.
