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David McCandless: Odds of dying from blogging?

Laura Oliver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:59:30 +0000

It’s 35,000,000 to 1, according to set of graphics from InformationIsBeautiful.net (hat tip to @fionacullinan).

While the blogging comparison might be slightly irreverent (and viewed alongside the very real threat to bloggers in countries with limited press freedom), Google is cited as the source for this stat and the whole set gives some interesting ideas for visualising data.

Full graphics at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – ideas for data mashups

Judith Townend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:59:55 +0000

Ideas for mashing local data: check out Kent County Council's initiative for ideas in your local area. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – data inspiration for stories

Laura Oliver — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:34 +0000

Data journalism: Want to make more use of data in your stories, but don't know where to start? Fantastic blog Flowing Data has a list of 30 starting points for finding the data you need on a range of basic subjects. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Guardian Politics: Second BNP membership leak expected

Laura Oliver — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:50:59 +0000

According to the Guardian, a new leaked list of British National Party members will be published by a website today.

The unnamed site insists the list, which includes names, addresses, postcodes and telephone numbers, is genuine and represents membership of the party as it stood in April this year.

The data leak would be the second in a year for the party after details of members were released online last November, raising debate about news organisations handling of the data and whether such documents should be linked to.

The party has suggested that the release of new information could be an attempt to undermine the appearance of its leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time programme this week.

Full story at this link…

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Online Journalism Blog: Can the UK government save journalism?

Laura Oliver — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:39:15 +0000

Paul Bradshaw suggests a number of steps (with examples) that the government could take ‘to create an environment that supports good journalism’:

Release of public data
Tax relief on donations to support investigative journalism
Encouraging innovation and enterprise
Reskilling of redundant journalists
An effective local news consortia

Well worth a read – and more suggestions are welcome.

Full post at this link…

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk: visualising with Muckety.com

Laura Oliver — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:03:09 +0000

Visualisations: Muckety.com has some inspiring mapping visualisations as it creates maps of relationships between people and organisations in power. Good inspiration and for providing an overview of connections between those in the news. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – tools for playing with data

Laura Oliver — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:00:14 +0000

Data: Great round-up from the author of the Flowing Data blog for the Guardian on tools for journalists looking to make better use of numbers and ways to visualise figures. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Malcolm Coles: MPs’ expenses – the best of the web

Laura Oliver — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:46:56 +0000

It’s fair to say Journalism.co.uk is interested in the media’s coverage of the recent UK MPs’ expenses scandal, so before we start rivalling the number of Telegraph pages published on the subject, here’s a round-up by Malcolm Coles of the best source data, visualisations, analysis and reportage.

A great guide for data-based storytelling too.

Meanwhile, on the front page of today’s Guardian an update on the title’s own crowdsourcing MPs’ expenses project – as reported by Journalism.co.uk on Thursday: almost 20,000 people have taken part and 160,000 pages examined.

Journalism.co.uk particularly liked this par from the Guardian’s report:

“All this will take much more careful analysis but shows the power of ‘citizen journalists’ and provides something of a riposte to one Telegraph commentator who dismissed the idea that a ‘collective of Kool-Aid slurping Wikipedians’ could conduct ‘rigorous analysis necessary for the recent MPs’ expenses investigation’.”

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ReadWriteWeb: CNET signs up for Open Calais

Laura Oliver — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:06:03 +0000

CNET.com will now share data from its technology reviews, news and blog posts on using Thomson Reuters’ Open Calais platform, allowing other publishers to use the information.

According to this report, CNET will publish certain sets of editorial data and some commercial information, for example data on its software download services, using the semantic API.

Signing up to OpenCalais will also enable CNET to generate topic pages.

Full story at this link…

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Beet.TV: Why APIs are essential – CurrentTV’s Robin Sloan

Laura Oliver — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:58:18 +0000

Good explanation of APIs and how they can be used by third-party developers and as the foundations for media partnerships.

Trust your users and realise that they’re smarter than you think, adds CurrentTV’s Robin Sloan.

Full story at this link…

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