Jack Lail is News Director of Innovation for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Amongst other random mumblings, he wrote about Some data on database journalism. Because he was speaking to a journalism class about Computer-Assisted Reporting, Computational Journalism and Open Government Data Advocacy efforts and needed some material. Go there an read the full post. Honoring [...]
In the new era of digital news publication does still apply the journalism jargon developed along two centuries of printing press? In a word: no. In an article published a week ago at ClickZ, Heidi Cohen synthesizes the 3 Cs of digital news consumption: What makes a platform relatively desirable to a news consumer? Here [...]
Speaking about all that media frenzy with iPad, how can reading evolve on digital devices? Do you think (as I do) in video instead of pictures like in The Daily Prophet read by Harry Potter? OK, but think again. Think in a “page” where “sounds, images and other types of ambient events can be triggered [...]
Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No – titles Dana Oshiro a pertinent article on ReadWriteWeb. Andrew Keen use to say a lot of things. I usually disagree with Andrew Keen. But this is also true: I *always* read Andrew Keen. Because Andre Keen makes me think. “You can’t get nuggets of truth in 30 [...]
March 16, 2010 – 11:16 am
Oscar Berg loves “great infographics“ and so do I. He collected several social media-related infographics and come up with this nice slideshow, just look: Social Media Infographics View more presentations from Oscar Berg. Share
2010 will be remembered as the year open data went worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee believe it and so do I. In this short TED talk Berners-Lee talks about Haiti, yes, but also about data effect things. Newspapers and online media *can* lead the process of putting all that public data into nice visualization schemes and [...]
“If media is in the infrastructure business, it is in the wrong business.” “The only wat to earn money in online publishing is by having a strong and identifiable brand with a unique offering“. “Start seeing your online publication as value provider, not content provider“. “This is an opportunity we have been waiting for, for [...]
I discovered The 15 Essential UNIX commands written almost 5 years ago by Pete Freitag. In 2005 talking to journalists in *nix commands was a bit of a daunting. But nowadays they are more known: much more journalists and media guys run Linux servers or Macs with OS X. First read Pete’s choice, then mine: [...]
February 27, 2010 – 5:31 pm
Facebook’s 30.000 servers (and growing) serve 6 million pageviews per minute. Yes, 6.000.000 in each minute, or 100.000 per second, if you prefer. For a data maniac and data visualization consumer like myself, this simple video from Jesse Thomas is a delight. Just watch (feed and newsletter readers, you may have to click here) The [...]
February 24, 2010 – 12:42 pm
Journaliste-programmeur, le mutant parfait? asks Sabine Blanc at Owni.fr. Well, the short answer is no, but Sabine Blanc’s question is a figure of speech. She is reacting to Ryan Tate’s important Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer. Both articles impose the journalist programmer as a trend. And this trend is the news — not [...]
Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a 49 year old portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. Now I prefer to code and teach. Join this conversation about new skills that improve journalism in a world totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.