The useful convergence of data
I have only one prediction for 2008. I think we’re finally about to see the useful combination of the 4 W’s – Who, What, Where, and When. # Marc Davis has done some interesting research in this area at...
View ArticleLocal community data reporting
EveryBlock has taken a very data intensive look at local news reporting. As founder Adrain Holovaty explains: # “An overall goal of EveryBlock is to point you to news near your block. We’ve been...
View ArticleChad Dickerson to join Etsy in New York
Chad Dickerson writes about leaving Yahoo! and starting his new job at Etsy running their technology efforts. He’ll be relocating to New York after spending 10 years in the Bay Area. # “To my Bay Area...
View ArticleAn open community news platform: n0tice.com
The last several weeks I’ve been working on a new project, a SoLoMo initiative, as John Doerr or Mary Meeker would call it. # Noticeboard photo by Jer*ry It’s a mobile publishing platform that...
View ArticleThe power of collective research, task-based investigations and swarm...
In January 2007 a well known computer scientist named Jim Gray was lost at sea off the California coast on his way to the Farallon islands. # It was a moment that many will remember either because Jim...
View ArticleThe generosity strategy
I’ve wondered for a long time why WordPress doesn’t get the dotcom homage some of the other perhaps less interesting organizations are showered with. # There are many reasons to pay attention to them,...
View ArticleDispatchorama: a distributed approach to covering a distributed news event
We’ve had a sort of Hack Week at the Guardian, or “Discovery Week“. So, I took the opportunity to mess around with the n0tice API to test out some ideas about distributed reporting. # This is what it...
View ArticleThe importance of co-dependency on the Internet
The thing that still blows my mind about the Internet is that through all the dramatic changes over the last 2 or 3 decades it remains a mostly open public commons that everyone can use. # There are...
View ArticleCalling your web site a ‘property’ deprives it of something bigger
BBC offered another history of London documentary the other night, a sort of people’s perspective on how the character of the city has changed over time, obviously inspired by Danny Boyle’s Opening...
View ArticleOrchestrating streams of data from across the Internet
The liveblog was a revelation for us at the Guardian. The sports desk had been doing them for years experimenting with different styles, methods and tone. And then about 3 years ago the news desk...
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