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Handicapping the Horserace
It’s human nature:Elections and disinformation go hand-in-hand. We idealize the competition of ideas and the process of debate while we listen to the whisper campaigns telling us of the skeletons in the other candidate’s closet. Or,we can learn from serious journalism to tap into the growing number of digital tools at hand and see what is really going on …[...] Brady Forrest,at O'Reilly's Radar,tips us to an interesting mash-up of Flickr,Open Street Map and the Burning Man festival. Why not use this idea for local festivals —fairs,classic car rallies,an introduction to a new shopping center? Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses [...] The phrases “community journalism”and “convergence journalism”have been around for decades (in the case of the former) and at least 10 years in the case of the latter. For a long time,“community journalism”referred to the publishing of “…a small daily,20,000 or less,or maybe a larger weekly or twice- or thrice-weekly.”[...] We have long been fans —and users —of the research tutorials created by the good folks in the UC Berkeley library. This item below from The Scout Report reminds me of that work and why I like it so much. You,too,might find it a helpful link for your training efforts. [...] Last week we had the opportunity to participate in a symposium honoring Phil Meyer,Knight Chair of Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel. About 30 journalism educators,practitioners and former students of Phil's spent the better part of two days kicking hard on the topic “”Raising the Ante:The Internet's Impact on Journalism Education [...] Marylaine Block's always informative “Neat New Stuff”[Neat New Stuff I Found This Week at http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html] tipped us to the DataWeb site and its interesting tool,the Data Feret (or “dataferet”). “TheDataWeb is a network of online data libraries that the DataFerrett application accesses the data through. Data topics include,census data,economic [...] What have we here? Cooperation between two academic departments in the same university? Largely unheard of in most schools,but it has happened with positive results in Hong Kong. 23 Nov 2007 http://www.hku.edu/press/news_detail_5671.html Power Distribution of the Four Political Camps,Seeing the 2007 District Council Election Results with Maps The Department of [...] Deep Web Research 2008 http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2008.htm By Marcus P. Zillman,Published on November 24,2007 Printer-Friendly Version Bots,Blogs and News Aggregators is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years,and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed over the [...] This comes from the Poynter blog….. Posted by Amy Gahran 5:42:13 PM CA Wildfire Coverage:Intriguing Online Approaches twitter.com KPBS San Diego is offering fire news updates via Twitter —possibly the best use of this service I've ever seen. While much of Southern California burns,online news staffs and citizen journalists [...] Yes,call us fickle and lacking in loyalty when it comes to note-taking and research organization tools. Does anyone else remember the 5×8 cards with holes punched on all four perimeters? You entered “tags”or keywords by clipping out the outer edge of the hole,and when you needed to find a particular [...] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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