Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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Earlier in the week, Channel 4′s Samira Ahmed sent these messages to Twitter:
SamiraAhmedC4: MATHS HELP! Do I need to say “comma” if I read out this formula tonight: p(h,r)=u(h,r)-pr=g(h, Zr)+f1[h, m(o,r)]+f2[h, m(o,r)]+E-pr.
Aug 16, 2010 03:56 PM GMT
SamiraAhmedC4: It’s the formula to explain how Blackpool (like Bath before it) is becoming classier.
Aug 16, 2010 03:57 PM GMT
If you’ve spent any time at all watching the debunking of bad science coverage, you’ll be wincing, because that formula has all the signs of being total tosh. August is silly season, the time of year where PR companies know
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
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Kevin: The genesis of the Hack/Hackers group that began in Silicon Valley, spread across the US and now has spread across the pond with a group in London. The meeting brings together technologists, developers and journalists to discuss the future of journalism and the media and build bridges between groups that had previously been quite separate.
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Kevin: Andrew Finlayson takes a look at the impact that the semantic web will have on
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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Kevin: Firm numbers have been difficult to come by in terms of how The Times paywall experiment is playing out, but in terms of traffic, Alexa shows a 44.9% decline in reach over the last three months since the paywall went up. We always knew that traffic would decline, but the question remains whether the loss of revenue from reduced ad impressions is made up by subscribers to the site.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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I’m going up to Sheffield in November to speak at Interesting North, a day-long conference where people talk about their passions (rather than their work). I, for one, will be going way off piste:
Suw is a writer, collaboration strategist and lapsed geologist.
Earlier this year she followed, in considerable detail, the exploits of Eyjafjallajökull, The Little Volcano Who Could (Close Airports Around Europe On A Whim). Part of a community of vulcanologists and lay enthusiasts, she watched for earthquake swarms, monitored live webcams, and attempted to interpret interesting yellow blobs on the volcano’s infrared cam.
For your delight and
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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Kevin: An in-depth look at the history of Slide, a social development company recently acquired by Google. The post is an excellent look at the history of Slide and what it might mean. "We would not be surprised to see Google Me (or whatever it is called) making self-expression a priority, complete with ways for users to do things like customize and auto-play slideshows on their profiles. And we also expect to see Levchin and his team to integrate the most social, self-expression focused parts of Google, like YouTube, Picasa (sort of), Blogger, Orkut
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
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Kevin: Ushahidi launches a free cloud-based service of its crowd-sourced crisis reporting platform. The new service, CrowdMap cuts the time to create a deployment. Instead of having to install it on a server, all you need to do is fill out a form with your password, a valid subdomain, name and tagline, according to a description on the Ushahidi blog.
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Kevin: James Ledbetter at
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
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Kevin: Hitwise reports that Facebook now accounts for one in six of all page views in the UK.
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Kevin: Slate creates a home for their experiments in multimedia journalism. Check out the visualisation they created mining Meetup for events related to the Tea Party to show areas of Tea Party activity in the US.
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Kevin: Yahoo's guide on how to write for the web
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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Kevin: Larry Kramer, former CEO of Marketwatch.com says that new news sites lack strong editorial leadership and voice. "Almost none of these sites have built a true journalistic infrastructure, with a powerful editorial voice at the top and a collective group of people who both worry continuously about how their content is being presented and who lead the army of reporters down their many paths with critical review and the benefit of experience. Together, these forces create journalistic greatness"
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
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TBD.com's Near You zip code-based news filter
At 428 am in Washington DC a new news site, TBD.com, launched, and it is definitely one worth watching. Why? They have assembled an all-star staff, brimming with passion. The general manager for the project is Jim Brady, the former executive editor and vice president of Washington Post Newsweek interactive. Steve Buttry, the site’s head of community engagement, has a long history in traditional journalism, training and innovation. (For any journalist struggling to come to terms with the unrequited love you feel for the business, read this post by Mimi Johnson, Steve’s wife,
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