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/patchworknation/ From the site: Welcome to The Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation website. This site represents a new approach to covering politics – particularly the 20... [read more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHHvK5TX0Zc

Here's another term to add to your vernacular! Read the full article here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/link_journalism.php 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 writing ab... [read more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJxWB4GxWWs

Part two, Saturday: on positivelyatlantaga.com

Franz, seeking funding, wants to become the foundation for a “semantic web” : http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/23/franz-seeking-funding-wants-to-become-the-foundation-for-a-semantic-web/ 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 more des... [read more]

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

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 the fu... [read more]

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 Northwestern Uni... [read more]

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

http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/2008/01/11/sensemaking-information-visualization-panel/ 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 product. http://conferences.co... [read more]

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

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

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 Annivers... [read more]

http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/2008/01/23/news-x-roadmaps/ 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 we going to produce eno... [read more]

Wanted to share this post on O'Reilly (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/reuters-ceo-sees-semantic-web.html) 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 by other... [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... [read more]

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... [read more]