Signal 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 [...]
From Slashdot:
Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats. …this will provide more relevant search rankings of the millions pieces of flash content.
This is good news
Flash is a terribly popular platform for interactive news, [...]
Amy Gahran did a great write up on the upcoming NYT API over at E-Media Tidbits:
I think it would be great if more news organizations and journalists could learn a different approach to presenting news — one that provides structure to information that supports both conventional storytelling and remixing, analysis, or alternate representations.
JD Lasica’s take [...]
“The WWW world consists of documents, and links.” — Tim Berners-Lee, in alt.hypertext, 1991.
red light district, by SMN
Why do newspapers publish AP articles online? Why not just link to them? David Cohen says “Stop buying Associated Press articles.”
They are called hyperlinks. They are blue. They are useful. Look Ma’ - here’s an AP [...]
Marketing guru Seth Godin wrote two great bits last week on how the news is screwed up.
First: The New York Times should only publish something if it’s true and important.
If I were editing the Times, I’d look at every single editorial feature, every single article and ask if it met either of the two things [...]
A recent interview with the design director of NYTimes.com revealed something wonderful, they still write their HTML by hand.
It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. [...]
Google Earth, New York Times Team Up
You can now browse New York Times news based on geography. Has the New York Times become hyperlocal, even though the content may not have that perspective. if all goes according to plan, the news will be updated every 15 minutes.
The Center for Locative Media
As educators and amateur neo-geographers, [...]
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