Ryan Thornburg has posted a quiz for his readers — an excerpt:
Could you explain how Twitter.com spread like wildfire the rumor of the death of Subway spokesman Jared Fogel? (And why it will be important for every political journalist to monitor the site on Nov. 3?)
Could you use Wikipedia’s revision history to see who edited [...]
Mindy McAdams graded news apps on the iPhone 3G:
Bloomberg LP doesn’t have any pictures or video, but whew! It loads fast and navigates fast. It updated a few times in the 24-hour span from Saturday to Sunday night; I’m betting that will only increase Monday. Note that you can input your own stocks, including the [...]
Tagged Bloomberg, iPhone, Mindy McAdamsSignal vs. Noise sez:
We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we had waited so long. It was easy to set up, a great resource for our community, and has generated lots of cash for the [...]
I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story. Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]
Are we sinking or sunk? Alfred Hermida writes that, at least in Canada, new research shows that nobody buys the paper for local news:
The main reason for choosing newspapers was out of habit. People were either daily readers or subscribers.
But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And [...]
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