Tag Archives: journalism

Visualizing the news: on storytelling

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Karl

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 on details, is rich in thought provoking: … Continue reading →

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Recent Space-X on NPR highlights how little we read

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Karl

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 building it! It is pretty … Continue reading →

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How poor information design led to Waterfall

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Karl

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 us older folks … Continue reading →

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Awesome visualizations from the NYTimes and Guardian

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Karl

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 “Open” shares novel uses of its API, some of which are physical!

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Hyper-local is about community or it fails

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Karl

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 being an aggregator is not enough. … Continue reading →

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*You* Fix the Budget

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Karl

Try this nifty interactive, by the New York Times, that enables you to make the hard decisions.

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Data Journalism and Visualization with an Example

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Karl

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), Raphaël, JSON)

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Counting political party stories on Google News

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Karl

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”: 11,579 stories Google News: “Tea Party”: 22,977 stories Google News: … Continue reading →

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Journalism Warning Labels

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Karl

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 work. Probably … Continue reading →

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Memeorandum has become essential

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Karl

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. Memeorandum is the only … Continue reading →

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