As always I’m doing a lot of plotting and scheming about the future of Spot.Us.
As such – I don’t have a long reflective post for you. This post will be filled with tasty hyper-links (courtesy the Publish2 plugin that has been a fun toy to play with this week). I hope they keep you coming back for more and convinced that I am indeed alive and working.
Hyper link bomb has been dropped.
Journalism Students Need to Develop Their Personal Brand | PBS
PBS Mediashift
Some reporters may bristle at the idea of thinking of themselves as a brand, considering it the equivalent of selling out. This overlooks the fact that a journalist’s identity has always been a part of the job, otherwise why have bylines?
Tags: Digidave
Why aren’t we paying for news?
Reflections of a Newsosaur
With their backs against the wall, 2009 was going to be the year that newspaper publishers finally got together to charge for the interactive content they have been giving away for free for more than a decade. Nearly two-thirds of the way into the year, however, there has been far more talk than action.
Tags: payment
Star Wars West Coast Defense
flickr.com
An awesome collection of photos showing Star Wars on the West Coast
Tags: photos, star wars
Social networks: 8 ways to engage users with news
socialmedia.biz
Here’s a slightly revised version of the Social Networks: Engaging Users With News webinar J.D. Lasica gave to a few hundred virtual attendees when I flew out to the Poynter Institute in Florida in May.
Tags: presentation, social media
New York should copy DataSF.org
megantaylor.org
Today, I saw an example of where New York should be heading. Infosthetics pointed out San Fransisco’s open data initiatives, including DataSF and San Francisco CrimeSpotting.
Tags: datasf
McSweeney’s LISTS: Status Updates Since My Mother Became My Facebook Friend.
I wish my father didn’t protect his Tweets because they are hillarious. They are all to me and he isn’t 100% sure if they ever reach me or what he is doing there.
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get
The more I get away from reading and writing inverted pyramids, the more I agree with Matt’s conclusion: “As news consumers, we should be demanding these things as well. After all, right now we’re only getting the lamest part of the story.”
Video of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan
DataSF.org and SF Crimespotting: San Francisco City Opening its Data
DataSF [datasf.org] is an online repository of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Similar to the goals of the data.gov and USASpending.gov initiatives, DataSF aims to improve access to data, help the community create innovative apps, understand what datasets the public likes to see, and receive feedback on the quality of the data. Included data ranges from all the trees located in the San Francisco streets (planting date, species, and location) to all its building permits or complaints.
Digging into Oakland crime statistics
For about 2 years now I’ve been doing monthly graphs & analysis of the OPD crime stats. I load up the data from CrimeSpotting.Org into an access database, and look at it 16 ways from Sunday.
Tags: Local, oakland, crime
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
I Tweeted this early yesterday and it received more re-tweets than ANYTHING I’ve ever Tweeted before.
Tags: visual, resource