Memeorandum has become essential
I have been hard on Memeorandum in the past, believing that its story selection algorithm’s were too narrow, that it promoted a small subset of the Web, but just look at it. Look at it again....
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Journalism Warning Labels
I like this – a lot. Makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than PMRC warning labels, that’s for sure. I wonder if a Firefox plugin, enabling some social review mechanism to apply these labels would...
View ArticleCounting political party stories on Google News
I am *not* accusing anyone of coverage bias. I’d bet that Google News’s story inclusion algorithms probably reflect what people are linking to and discussing generally. Google News: “Republican Party”:...
View ArticleData Journalism and Visualization with an Example
Guardian: Paul Bradshaw: “How to be a data journalist” ProPublica: Jeff Larson: “The Rainbow Connection: How We Made Our CDO Connections Graphic” (tools mentioned: google-refine (formerly Gridworks),...
View Article*You* Fix the Budget
Try this nifty interactive, by the New York Times, that enables you to make the hard decisions.
View ArticleHyper-local is about community or it fails
There have been numerous efforts at building services focused on local communities, and almost all of them, that have not had a community element to them, have failed to one degree or another. Just...
View ArticleAwesome visualizations from the NYTimes and Guardian
Check out the terrific timeline visualization of protests in the Middle East. The navigation and elements surfaced simultaneously is informative and makes exploring fun. The NYTimes engineering blog...
View ArticleHow poor information design led to Waterfall
I just took part in a great 3 day training session with Uncle Bob Martin on TDD and healthy software design. One of the tidbits Bob shared was the history behind the Waterfall methodology that some of...
View ArticleRecent Space-X on NPR highlights how little we read
A story is posted about a private company working to build the largest capacity lifter in service and what do a significant number of commentors fret about? That the government is wasting its money on...
View ArticleVisualizing the news: on storytelling
Matthew Ericson of the New York Times (and former co-worker of mine) put together slides of his recent presentation at AIGA Pivot. The presentation must have rocked because the slide deck, while short...
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