Category Archives: bits

Journalist programmer: the perfect mutant? No.

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 [...]

Google open-sources the Living Stories format

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 world

No better phrase to begin this conversation, don’t you agree? Here I go. A new adventure in publishing: a kind of blog about the journalist programmer — this raising figure which is going to lead several processes in newsrooms of all kind this next decade.