Google Maps Mania: Government Cuts on Google Maps
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Several attempts being made to plot local spending cuts on a map, including crowdsourcing efforts by Channel 4 and the Guardian.
Category Archives: Guardian News & Media
The Guardian: How live blogging has transformed journalism
"The reward is huge traffic spikes, hundreds of comments – so far in March, live blogs (including minute-by-minute coverage of sporting events) on guardian.co.uk account for 3.6 million unique users, 9% of the total – and the wrath of some traditional readers who clamour for a straight-up-and-down, conventionally written article. One blogger even described live blogs as the 'death of journalism'."
Journalism.co.uk: Guardian appoints first dedicated mobile editor
"The Guardian has appointed [Subhajit Banerjee] its first ever dedicated editor for mobile."
Guardian: All-party parliamentary groups: get the lobbying data
James Ball: "The system works well enough for anyone wanting to check up on an individual MP or civil servant – if they are willing to trawl six registers – but if someone wants to see all of Fujitsu's interactions with politicians, for example, there's nowhere to look. ... The new data techniques used in this Guardian investigation begin to tackle the problem: using a automated script coded by ScraperWiki, all the separate all-party register entries are pulled into one document, so the data can be analysed to give a fuller picture. "
Online Journalism Blog: Matt Wells on The Guardian’s interactive protests Twitter map
"It’s powered by a Google spreadsheet – so it’s really easy to add new people and to attach them to particular countries or search terms."
Guardian Data Blog: The Guardian rosetta: the Datablog reference guide to nearly everything – ISO country codes, parliament, university, LAs and NHS codes
The Guardian's spreadsheet of frequently-used codes for standardising datasets.
Press Gazette: Guardian memo: 54,000 a month behind Times paywall
"New research from Experian Hitwise has been used by The Guardian to suggests that 54,000 people a month are accessing content behind the paywall of The Times and Sunday Times. The research was commissioned by Guardian News and Media and published internally on the company’s intranet yesterday."
Gawker: Amazon.com Evicts Wikileaks. Who’s Next?
"Under pressure from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks.org off its servers. But why stop there? There's all kinds of controversial customers the cowardly but remarkably convenient e-tailer can flee from. ... "
The Cutline: The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times
"if WikiLeaks ... wasn't the [New York] Times source, than who was? Apparently, The Guardian—one of the five newspapers that had an advanced look at the cables—supplied a copy of the cables to The Times. ... It's not everyday that a newspaper gives valuable source material to a competitor. But [Guardian investigations editor David Leigh] explained in a [in an email to The Cutline] that British law 'might have stopped us through injunctions [gag orders] if we were on our own.'"
Press Gazette: Media Guardian retreats from B2B territory
Hmmm: "The appointment of Dan Sabbagh as the new head of the Guardian’s media and technology team coincides with its retreat from seeking to compete with established trade players such as Press Gazette, Broadcast and Media Week."
Papal Visit
"The Guardian is experimenting with crowd-sourcing the Pope’s visit to the UK. Our team of correspondents, bloggers, photographers and columnists will be covering most dimensions of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip - as will an army of hundreds of agency journalists and rolling news television crews pursuing his every step. But the mainstream media cannot be everywhere at once. This CrowdMap aims to combine verified reports from the Guardian and other media with potentially invaluable information supplied by people like you, who simply see, hear or record something they think is relevant about the Papal visit."
Press Gazette: Paul Lewis to stay at Guardian to run web project team
"[Paul Lewis], who was due to join The Times next month as a "special correspondent", will instead remain at Guardian News & Media to lead a small team of journalists who will experiment with using online tools to develop multimedia storytelling."
currybetdotnet: 5 ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages
About the "5 different ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages."
Guardian: Wikileaks’ Afghanistan war logs: how our datajournalism operation worked
"The data came to us as a huge excel file – over 92,201 rows of data, some with nothing in at all or were the result of poor formatting. Anything over 60,000 rows or so brings excel down in dramatic fashion – saving takes a painfully long period of time (tip number one – turn automatic saving off in preferences…). It doesn't help reporters trying to trawl through the data for stories and it's too big to run meaningful reports on. Fortunately, after COINS, huge datasets hold no fear for us. ..."