Symposium on Computation and Journalism

Persephone Miel left a note

Hi All, Berkman's Media Re:public event is at USC in just a couple weeks. If you are able to join us in LA, we'd love to see you. (But sorry, we have zero none nada travel money left, no matter how much we love you)
Details and registration here:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/m...#

All interested folks welcome to join the Media Re:public crowdvine: mr.crowdvine.com

Wed, Mar 12 at 1:18PM

Wendy Darling posted Visualizing Info: Patchwork Nation

I was really impressed with the talk of visualizing / exploring data online through things like interactive maps, graphs, relationship-finders, etc. Just came across another example I thought I'd share: Patchwork Nation Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/patchworknat... From the site: Welcome to The Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation website. This site represents a new approach to covering politics – partic...... [read more]

Wed, Mar 12 at 9:10AM (0 comments)

Grayson Daughters posted Advice for Media Hunter-Gatherers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHHvK5...

Sun, Mar 2 at 1:35PM (0 comments)

Glenn Platt left a note

The Interactive Media Studies Program at Miami University is looking to hire a tenure track computational journalism professor. See details here: http://writer.zoho.com/public/plattgj...
I hope you all consider applying or contact me for more info.

Fri, Feb 29 at 4:24AM

Korina Stark posted LINK: Link Journalism: Is Linking to News a form of Journalism?

Here's another term to add to your vernacular! Read the full article here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/... Excerpt: Scott Karp attempted to coin a new term on his Publishing2 blog today: link journalism. "Link journalism is linking to other reporting on the web to enhance, complement, source, or add more context to a journalist’s original reporting," he wrote. Links as journalism is something that Karp has been wri...... [read more]

Tue, Feb 26 at 11:35AM (0 comments)

Grayson Daughters posted Interview With Michael Skoler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJxWB4...

Mon, Feb 25 at 10:38AM (0 comments)

J.C. Burns posted Second megapost about the conference.

Part two, Saturday: on positivelyatlantaga.com

Mon, Feb 25 at 9:36AM (0 comments)

Korina Stark posted Article for those interetsed in Semantic Web

Franz, seeking funding, wants to become the foundation for a “semantic web” : http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/23/fra... Background: Triple stores are a way of storing relationships between "things" that is very different from a typical relational database with tables and the like. Rather than mapping things with 1:1, 1:many, or many:many relationships, the relationships are ...... [read more]

Mon, Feb 25 at 9:22AM (0 comments)

J.C. Burns posted Part one, collect them all.

Gee, I'm actually trying to sum all of this fine confluence of ideas and foomfah... ...here on my blog. Where else?

Sun, Feb 24 at 4:37PM (0 comments)

Shelby Highsmith left a note for David Cohn

Dude, what hotel DID you stay at??? The Clermont?!

Sun, Feb 24 at 11:42AM

Irfan Essa left a note

All:

Thanks for coming to the event. Pass the word and continue the conversations. Look forward to seeing all soon.

Irfan

Sun, Feb 24 at 8:40AM

Irfan Essa left a note for Nick Diakopoulos

Good job, Nick and thanks for leading it all the way. Now that dissertation ... :)

Sun, Feb 24 at 8:39AM

Andrew Haeg left a note for mark hansen

Fascinating work. Would love to learn more about it by visiting sometime soon!

Sun, Feb 24 at 6:37AM

Carol Minton Morris posted Thanks to organizers and sponsors

As the folks from American Public Broadcasting like to say, "It's all about connecting with people." Thanks especially to Irfan, Brad, Nick, Beth, the tireless tech crew and many student assistants for making so many new connections possible over the weekend. There were several very interesting "wish lists" put on the table by speakers over the last two days. What did everyone else hear with respect to opportunities for working together in ...... [read more]

Sun, Feb 24 at 5:38AM (0 comments)

Brian Boyer posted Where will I go next January?

Dearest journalists, technologists, and everybody in-between, I'm one of the two programmer-journalists who Rich Gordon talked about this morning. When people find that out, they usually ask one thing: What the devil are you going to do when you graduate? My usual response: I have no idea, but it's going to be really interesting. Ten months from now, I'll have a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at N...... [read more]

Sat, Feb 23 at 12:57PM (0 comments)

Korina Stark posted Visualization Blog: information aesthetics

http://infosthetics.com/ For those folks with an interest in visualizations, this blog is a great resource on the topic.

Sat, Feb 23 at 12:28PM (0 comments)

Nic Fulton posted Sensemaking and info visualisation notes and URLs

http://www.computational-journalism.c... John Stasko ----------- VAST 2007 VASTcontest07 http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ii/jigsaw Sensemaking is visualisation - it's not about pretty pictures, it's a cognitive process. Visual cortext is temporary memory. We are wonderful pattern matches. Use the visual memory. e.g "I see what you're saying" Spotfire - TIBCo prod...... [read more]

Zachary L Pousman: Trying to keep a list of links also... Too bad we can't keep this a group.

Sat, Feb 23 at 12:27PM (1 comment)

Saurav Sahay left a note

Interesting sites/projects mentioned so far:
topix.com
current.com
outside.in
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/
http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp07/...
http://cifoo.crowdvine.com/profiles
http://my.wbmx.com/
many eyes
swivel
allvoices
django
ellington
news at seven
sunlight labs - eg. minnpost.com
influenceexplorer.com
maplight.org
jigsaw
http://perspective.informedia.cs.cmu....

Sat, Feb 23 at 12:16PM

Zachary L Pousman left a note

Here's a list (it's incomplete, but it's what I've managed to grab so far) of all of the really cool URLs that people brought up / discussed / displayed at the computational journalism symposium. I'm really just keeping this list for myself, but hopefully you'll find it useful too.
1. Pownce 2. New Assignment 3. Prefuse: Toolkit for interactive visualizations (also see flare toolkit for flash) 4. Jigsaw from Georgia Tech 5.Newsweek: 50th Anniversary of Sputnik 6. Newsweek: The Hole In Manhattan's Heart 7. Beat Blogging 8. Digg 9. Mark Hansen's A quick review of Movable Type (here's a PDF with more) 10. NewsTrust 11. Reuters Labs 12. A blog post from Ramesh Jain's website about the "EventsWeb" 13. News at Seven 14. Sunlight - who's giving money to politicians? 15. Influence explorer (can't seem to get in... need magic word) 16. Twitter

Sat, Feb 23 at 11:52AM

Cliff Lampe left a note for Nic Fulton

I listened to one of the music/news mashups... I thought it was cool, but I'm both a news and a tech nerd.

Sat, Feb 23 at 11:34AM

Persephone Miel left a note for Neil Budde

Terrific talk. Thanks!

Sat, Feb 23 at 11:32AM

Bill Densmore posted LINK: Blogging about computation +journalism

I'm blogging about computation + journalism at: NewsTools2008.org.

Sat, Feb 23 at 11:26AM (0 comments)

Zachary L Pousman posted Links from the symposium

Here's a list (it's incomplete, but it's what I've managed to grab so far) of all of the really cool URLs that people brought up / discussed / displayed at the computational journalism symposium. I'm really just keeping this list for myself, but hopefully you'll find it useful too. 1. Pownce 2. New Assignment 3. Prefuse: Toolk...... [read more]

Sat, Feb 23 at 1:24PM (0 comments)

Nic Fulton posted Notes from News X Roadmap

http://www.computational-journalism.c... Neil Budde ---------- we always over-estimate the short term impact and underestimate the long-term. Internet publishing a good example - the hockey stick curve. What is going to support journalism and news in the future? We're looking at short term implications. We need to look at the long term ones too. As you look at the implications - how are w...... [read more]

Sat, Feb 23 at 10:05AM (0 comments)

Korina Stark posted News as the raw material for analysis

Wanted to share this post on O'Reilly (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/200...) that I thought was very interesting, and a good seed topic for this group. In it, Tim O'Reilly discusses an interview he did with Devin Wenig, COO of Reuters. Mr. Wenig discussed a perspective on the news that is, seemingly, uncommon: that news is not necessarily the end product, rather, it is the raw material for analysis b...... [read more]

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Brian Boyer: News needs a microformat. http://microformats.org/ I'm shocked there isn't one. We should make one. Who's in? Longer rant: They solve the big problem with special XML formats by being built purely with XHTML. Basically, that means that you don't need to translate from a XML format to HTML, you can just style up the microformatted information with CSS. For instance, if I was writing a news microformat, I would need a way to denote a captioned image. Since there is no pre-defined way to do that with XHTML (like there is, say, with italicized text, the tag.), I might do something like this: This is the caption of the photo below If a few sites agree to write XHTML that way then web spiders, browsers, etc, would know something semantic about the data, that it was a captioned image in a news article, instead of just knowing it was a div containing an image and a paragraph. It's a fantastic extension to the already fantastic ideas about writing semantic XHTML. It's sort of a form of search engine optimization, but 10 times more powerful -- because yours and other sites are presenting the information in a consistent structure. Consistent, semantic, and structured. And without requiring any new technologies, browsers, servers, or standards bodies. Woot!

Brian Boyer: Ooh. My example broke. Doh. Silly form.

Nic Fulton: Brian, there's NewsML as a way to package news, but this has a focus on syndication. This uses XHTML in the body of the content (AFAIK). But this is an interesting alternative approach, and attractive from a SEO and spidering perspective which drives so much traffic (and hence revenue).

Sat, Feb 23 at 5:04AM (4 comments)

Laura Bellinger left a note

Oh Leonard, I thought I'd just bring the dog with me!

Thu, Feb 21 at 7:55AM

Ramesh C Jain left a note for David McCoy

Dave, remember our old time -- lunches at Nan and other places. Will be great to connect with you again. Looking forward to.

Wed, Feb 20 at 9:39PM

Matt Bigelow left a note for Ezra Cooperstein

hey ezra,

i'd be interested to talk to you about your work at current, as i'm interested in citizen reporting/producing of media and journalism. perhaps we could grab a cup of coffee at a break?

Wed, Feb 20 at 9:30PM

Anestis Diakopoulos left a note for Mary Louise Schumacher

The last phrase of your comments interests me, "how people consume media." I'm in newspapers, as you are, and trying to morph our newsroom while riding out the sea change. I'd be interested in reading or hearing your perspectives.
anestis

Wed, Feb 20 at 7:57PM

Leonard Witt left a note for Laura Bellinger

Hi Laura:

Now this time make sure you have a dog sitter, so you can party long into the night with no worries.

Wed, Feb 20 at 7:18PM

Susan J. Robinson left a note for Nick Diakopoulos

Nick! Congrats on getting this organized, look forward to it!

Tue, Feb 19 at 5:43PM

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