Tag: journalism
Bookmarks for May 16, 2013
- This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
The next time someone tells you the internet is killing our attention span, send them here. This is utterly fascinating stats-based analysis of new ways of publishing long form news and analysis on the web.
- On the Constant Moment – clayton cubitt
A superb essay on photography's place in our culture. I've seen a few people linking to this already, and they've all picked the same stand-out sentence because, fuck me, it's a doozy. "It is the creation of art through the curation of time." What a beautiful and clearly expressed idea. I'm going to be picking that one apart for a while to come.
Bookmarks for May 1, 2012
- Welcome – The Data Journalism Handbook
Interesting stuff, and that I will have to read when time permits.
- Visiting NYC? Where to Eat in New York | Serious Eats : New York
I really do want to go back to New York. I haven't been since I was 18, and I really want to go and do the place properly.
Bookmarks for March 22, 2012
- Watercolour map of London
Stamen design have used OpenStreetMap data to produce full zoomable maps that look like they've been made with watercolours. Beautiful.
- The most highlighted passages of all time on Kindle
Just 4 books account for the top 10. And I promise you that unless you've already looked at this, you will not expect what 2 of them, that between account for fully 7 of the top 10, are. The first one that is something I might myself have quoted comes in at 14.
- Fairytales are all around us.
Del spots a fairytale happening on her commute. This morning, I watched 2 JCBs do a mating dance, then wind up hand in hand, the scoop of one left resting inside the scoop of the other. What do you see on yours?
- I can’t stop reading this analysis of Gawker’s editorial strategy » Nieman Journalism Lab
Here's an interesting insight into the view-economics of web-based journalism. Short version: linkbait trivia attracts more views than serious writing, but not remotely significantly more, and basically, without the more serious stuff, odds are most publications would lose even the linkbaited audience – people will read the daft stuff from a publication they view as at least slightly credible, but not from somewhere that's obviously *just* trolling for eyeballs. Unrelated: welcome to the 21st century, where the utterly absurd phrase "trolling for eyeballs" makes perfect sense. My grandmother would be so confused.
- 'Air Display' to Let You Use the New iPad as a HiDPI 'Retina' Display for Your Mac – Mac Rumors
I am spending less time with my dual-screen desktop, and more with iPad/laptop. Air Display may actually be a worthwhile purchase now, particularly once it's Retina-enabled.
Bookmarks for December 7, 2011
- Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis
Clay Shirky on the newspaper business, and the nature of institutions.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2011
- Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – Hyperpolyglot
Likely of no interest to non-webdev-nerds, but potentially of enormous value to me, in terms of learning new languages. I sort of vaguely know Ruby, but this direct translation from PHP to Ruby would speed what little ruby hacking I do.
- It's Sexy A-Levels!
A blog exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive girls in low cut tops do A-Levels.
- fleet street fox: More pictures like this, please.
A counter-argument: it is excellent that at A-level results time, the papers fill up with photos of attractive young women. Less sexist that you think.
- Tetrapharmakos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I stumbled across this set of 4 simple maxims for a happy life, and really like it.
- Up, up and away into near-space in a beautiful bloon
Statement of intent: I will do this before I die.
- Special ed student raped by classmate, forced by school to apologize to him, then raped again, lawsuit claims (UPDATED) – Boing Boing
I wanted to link to this not because it's directly relevant to me (other than, y'know, as a human being with an ounce of compassion somewhere under a rock in here), or even because it's an exceptionally horrible story (it is, but the plain truth is that worse things happen every day, and I don't link to news about them), but just because it strikes me as a very, very stark reminder of how, even in the "developed" world, we still have such a very very long way to go before we can call ourselves civilised.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2011
- Ghostery
An ad-network and spyware blocker for most of the major ad networks. May ad-blockers just stop the ads from displaying. This one can stop them from spying on you, too. Nice.
- danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
An excellent summary of the what the "real name" policy Google are attempting to enforce is, basically, Evil. Me, I'm absolutely in favour of real names being used on-line, and I certainly insist on it in forums I moderate. But those forums tend to be small, relatively closed membership things, formed with the intent of supporting offline in-the-flesh interaction. That's a very different use case to massive social networks, where the ability to feel comfortable using one's real name is a privilege that all sorts of people don't possess for all sorts of reasons.
- One tweet takes a journalist on a voyage of discovery | Media | guardian.co.uk
Here's a thrilling example of our lack of privacy in the 21st century. There really not a lot that's going to be done about it,I'm just linking because I think this is good illustration of how the world work now. It's probably not an earth-shattering revelation to most of you, but nonetheless, it's interesting background in these days of phone hacking…
Bookmarks for January 18, 2011
- Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data – ProPublica
Handy set of guides for getting useful structured/meaningful data out of websites.
- Will the ConDems allow the disabled to live? | Blogeration
Another one I imagine you've already seen. Some absolutely splendid writing on the subject of the cuts, and how grossly unfair it is to ask the disabled to bear the size of cuts we're talking about.
Bookmarks for December 2, 2010
- I, Reader by Alexander Chee – The Morning News
This is a really really good personal summary of an obsessive book collector's relationship with his new e-readers. If you're a bibliophile who is wondering if there's a place for e-readers in your life, I suggest you read this.
- How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks | TPMMuckraker
This is idiotic rubbish on the part of Lieberman, and worse, Amazon. It isn't at all clear that Wikileaks has done anything illegal, and presuming they have just because powerful people don't like it is exactly the wrong response, and sends all sorts of hideous messages about society.
- After secrets: Missing the point of WikiLeaks | The Economist
And of course, as this makes clear, Lieberman and Amazon are very much missing the point. This is not a problem that can be fixed by attacking Wikileaks, or any similar service.
Bookmarks for November 12, 2010
- You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'
Joel Johnson treats people who write the comments on gizmodo like they deserve to be treated.
- Is this evidence that we can see the future? – life – 11 November 2010 – New Scientist
Between this, and the whole "the universe is actually only two dimensional" thing from a few weeks back, I'm becoming concerned about the informational underpinnings of reality. Of course, it's statistically more likely that we're all participants in some vast simulated reality than it is that we're actually really here, so y'know, whatever. I'd just like it if we were in a high resolution universe without the memory leaks.
- A LIFE ON FACEBOOK on Vimeo
Amusing conceit, slightly flawed movie. Has anyone written the Facebook equivalent of an epistolary novel yet, I wonder?
- London Bloggers
The London bloggers directory updates. Nice! I've just been through most of the Tooting Broadway ones, though, and most of them are dead or no longer updated, and I can spot a couple of people in there who I know don't live in Tooting any more. It's just me left hanging around, making the place look untidy…