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 [...]
February 18, 2010 – 2:07 am
Let’s say it. This is an excellent notice to open this blog. Google announced today on the official blog that it has open-sourced the Living Stories format. Living Stories are a new format for presenting and consuming online news. Not the graphical type of presenting like Guardian’s recent Zeitgeist that follows the best tradition of [...]
Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. I still publish on print 5 days a week, but I prefer to develop web apps and services for newsrooms ans individual journalists. I occasionally update the conversation going on about new skills that improve journalism in an environment totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.