Holovaty.com: EveryBlock acquisition and me

Posted on 17 August, 2009 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 4 July, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 1 July, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 24 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 18 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 9 April, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Paul Carvill's nice aggregator of Twittering Guardianistas (via Journalism.co.uk).

NYTimes.com: Represent

Posted on 21 December, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Find your elected representatives in New York City. ... And what they're up to.

Los Angeles Times: Databases, Lists, Maps, Rankings – Data Desk

Posted on 27 November, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 27 November, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 17 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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?"

The 42 Topics Blog: An Interview with Adrian Holovaty – Creator of Django

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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

Backyard Post

Posted on 26 March, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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

Lawrence Journal-World: web data projects quicker than writing story for paper

Posted on 19 March, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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

Fimoculous.com: A Data Point on Every Block

Posted on 16 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

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.

Martin Stabe

A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism

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