As announced on their excellent Open blog, the Times rolled out a neat tool yesterday:
The New York Times Visualization Lab… allows readers to create compelling interactive charts, graphs, maps and other types of graphical presentations from data made available by Times editors. NYTimes.com readers can comment on the visualizations, share them with others in the [...]
Today’s great post from Mindy McAdams reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had recently about online video. News organizations are trying too hard! There’s an easier way to tell video stories on the web.
The web is not TV
Television news has gotten us used to a specific format of video. But a TV [...]
In our efforts to increase connections among the fine citizens of Cedar Rapids, Team Crunchberry has decided to integrate our efforts with a cool-as-hell new way to leverage social networks, Facebook Connect.
Facebook says Connect will enable users to:
Seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site
Connect and find their friends who also use your [...]
The Crunchberry Project is using agile software development practices as we build a new product for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. On the team blog, I’ve begun writing a series of pieces detailing our process.
Part one was a brief attempt at defining agile and explaining why it’s important:
What can happen in a year? Twitter catches on. [...]
As announced on Open, NYT’s open source blog:
The upcoming presidential election has seen record fund-raising by the candidates and a host of new donors. Now we want our users to be able to analyze and reuse some of the data we’ve been looking at while reporting on the campaign.
Read Write Web’s take is on:
One thing [...]
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