jan
30
2012
Wrangling Election Data With Google Tools
WNYC developer John Keefe has some great tutorials on how to use various Google Tools to process / display elections data. Instead of building a database, he uses Google Fusion Tables. When the Data’s Free: For the Iowa Caucuses (and …
oct
31
2011
Datavis and Journalism
An interesting lecture from Amanda Cox of the New York Times at the Eyeo Festival earlier this year: (If you can’t see the video above, it’s available on Vimeo.) Data visualization should probably play a slightly different role in journalism …
oct
14
2011
When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps | Matthew Ericson
The NYT graphics director writes, “But sometimes the reflexive impulse to map the data can make you forget that showing the data in another form might answer other — and sometimes more important — questions.”
jul
19
2011
A real-time, geotagged Flickr map? Here’s how. | 10,000 Words
This is ridiculously, embarrassingly easy. Awesome. “When reporters are in the field with their smartphones and they have a story to tell where both photo and location are vital, a stream of Flickr photos imported into a Google Map will do the trick.”
jun
03
2010
Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There's a difference, and it matters | Nieman Journalism Lab
(Delicious tags: journalism onlinenews business blogs toread)
may
10
2010
Links: U.K. Election
UK election results map | Politics | guardian.co.uk The Guardian's recent take on presenting election results (tags: webdesign onlinenews politics election2010) BBC NEWS | Election 2010 | Results | United Kingdom - National Results The BBC's recent take on presenting …
jul
22
2009
The New NPR.org
NPR’s Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday, introduces NPR.org’s redesign, coming this Monday, June 27: (If you can’t see the video above, it’s available on YouTube.) More About the Redesign »
jan
28
2009
online news, circa 1981
This circa-1981 San Francisco local news report about an experimental new online news service is a bit of a freakout. My, how things have changed. Or not, even. Newscaster: Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning …
nov
21
2007
(don't) give up on vista
Apple has a rather ballsy advertising campaign (Quicktime movie) right now in which they’re seemingly taunting Microsoft about problems users are having with its Windows Vista operating system. They’ve upped the ante with an ad buy on CNet’s guide to …
nov
14
2007
msnbc redesign
MSNBC.com just launched a redesign this week, including some personalization / customization functionality on the homepage. From a purely design perspective, though, I like the new look. It’s clean, there’s a clear visual hierarchy and they’ve done a lot with …
aug
23
2007
pants on fire
I’m generally not a huge fan of animated gifs — except when they’re done well. And this “Pants on Fire” graphic, part of the “Truth-o-Meter” at PolitiFact.com, is near-genius. I love the attitude and sheer ballsiness of it — especially …
jul
19
2007
newspaper web site redesigns
Three newspaper Web sites have launched or previewed redesigns recently: MaineToday.com this month launched a redesign homepage. (Pointed out on Poynter’s Online-News listerv.) The Baltimore Sun this week introduced a new look. The design is pretty clean and straightforward, and …
jun
01
2007
cnn beta
CNN.com recently debuted a beta version of their forthcoming redesign, and the more I click through it, the more I like it. It’s beautifully lean — clean, simple, easy to navigate and not weighted down by a ton of extraneous …
feb
23
2007
apple pro
The Multimedia staff at washingtonpost.com (including some of my soccer teammates!) got some love from Apple this month, in the form of a feature profile on Apple’s site about how they use Apple products. Projects featured in the video: Being …
nov
15
2006
calm after the storm
Was the election really a whole week ago? The three weeks leading up to the election — and the week before in particular — my work life revolved around the elections, and my personal mantra was a countdown to Election …
apr
13
2006
miami converged
There are changes afoot at the Miami Herald and miamiherald.com. In a memo to staffers yesterday, executive editor Tom Fiedler had some interesting things to say about the relationship between the newspaper and the Web site. I have two messages …
apr
02
2006
brand x
nytimes.com just launched a pretty massive redesign. Fasciminating. One completely minor thing that struck me as interesting: I really like their choice of the words “Today’s Paper” (instead of “Print Edition”) to describe the section that archives the contents of …
mar
20
2006
what's the url?
This Zits comic seems to have it about right about reading newspaper articles. (Thanks to Tanya for the link.)
feb
18
2006
heard: medium
Waiting for my hot chocolate at the Java Shack this afternoon, I heard a man complain to his companions that he disliked reading the print version of The Washington Post because the experience was too much like a “Choose Your …
feb
13
2006
breaking news
A while back, I signed up for CNN’s breaking news text alerts for my T-Mobile cellphone. I signed up for the text alerts to stay up-to-date with anything major that might happen when I’m not near a computer or television. …
