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Month June 2011

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An A1 centerpiece without a headline

Jun 27, ’11 6:57 AM

Today’s Newark Star-Ledger centerpiece story runs without a headline. Intentionally: Charles Apple notes a piece of engaging print design on the front page. It’s a seemingly banal photograph with three grafs of text above it that draw the reader in, revealing at their close the backstory of the image. It works well.

Does Andy Carvin scale?

Jun 25, ’11 8:04 AM

From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin’s Twitter curation: How do you take @acarvin’s methods (I think the tools already exist) and build them into a news organization’s social media production workflow?

Open source tools from the Chicago Tribune news apps team

Jun 24, ’11 1:15 PM

Recent open source work and other projects we’re excited about: Free open source tools from the Chicago Tribune news apps team. Census, Twitter, regional boundary data, etc.

 

How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables

Jun 23, ’11 1:20 PM

How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables: Seems useful!

A short list of things you might find useful

Jun 14, ’11 6:40 AM
  1. A proposed new standard for semantic metadata in, say, online news stories.
  2. Michael Donohoe’s bucket list of things the New York Times could do, delivered shortly after he moved on to a new gig.
  3. If you’re not following Richard Koci Hernandez on Instagram, you’re missing out on a hypercreative stream of possibilities.
  4. A short instruction manual from CNN for success on the Web: Strengthen your core, then stretch yourself.
  5. On Wikipedia, all roads lead to Philosophy. And data visualization.
  6. The first rule of Tweet Club is exactly what you think it is.
  7. A book about responsive web design.
  8. How and why the Financial Times built a no-app-store-required HTML5 experience for tablets, and also, the future.
  9. The New York Observer redesigns online to showcase #longreads and scoops. (See also Stock and Flow.)
  10. Google ties together “rel=me” and authorship of things like news stories with a new bit of metadata.

Now, go build something useful.

In which you can hear the Internet breathing heavily on a hot day

Jun 1, ’11 10:15 PM

PBS hacked, new Twitter stuff, new Google stuff, new Apple stuff, constant flow of new Facebook stuff, that guy who had that other guy’s computer, a thousand horrifying tornado photo galleries, continuing viral revolutions in the Middle East, Instagram.

It’s too hot for this, Internet.

(I’d link, but I don’t want to break anything.)