Category Archives: data

Local community data reporting

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Matt McAlister

EveryBlock has taken a very data intensive look at local news reporting. As founder Adrain Holovaty explains: “An overall goal of EveryBlock is to point you to news near your block. We’ve been working hard to do a good job … Continue reading →

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Interesting perspectives from Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Matt McAlister

Today’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco provided some really good brain food. Clay Shirky’s keynote was excellent. He talked about architecting a new world for the “cognitive surplus” that’s emerging as people pull themselves out of the historical sitcom … Continue reading →

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Creating leverage at the data layer

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Matt McAlister

There’s a reason that the world fully embraced HTTP but not Gopher or Telnet or even FTP. That’s because the power of the Internet is best expressed through the concept of a network, lots of interlinked pieces that make up … Continue reading →

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Interactive journalism: An amazing homicide mashup

Posted on January 16, 2008 by

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Connelly and Katy Newton for YDN Theater recently with YDN videographer Ricky Montalvo. They created the amazing (and award-winning) crime data mashup Not Just A Number in partnership with The Oakland Tribune. After … Continue reading →

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Building markets out of data

Posted on January 4, 2008 by

I’m intrigued by the various ways people view ‘value’. There seem to be 2 camps: 1) people who view the world in terms of competition for finite resources and 2) people who see ways to create new forms of value … Continue reading →

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The useful convergence of data

Posted on January 3, 2008 by

I have only one prediction for 2008. I think we’re finally about to see the useful combination of the 4 W’s – Who, What, Where, and When. Marc Davis has done some interesting research in this area at Yahoo!, and … Continue reading →

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The Internet’s secret sauce: surfacing coincidence

Posted on December 14, 2007 by

What is it that makes my favorite online services so compelling? I’m talking about the whole family of services that includes Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us among others. I find it interesting that people don’t generally refer to any … Continue reading →

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Making government more useful through data

Posted on December 11, 2007 by

A very interesting working group formed recently to drive better transparency in government through data. The Open Government Data organization has a simple aim: “The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the … Continue reading →

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Oakland Trib’s Not-Just-A-Number improves on crime data visualization

Posted on November 20, 2007 by

OJR’s Jim Wayne dives into Oakland Tribune’s “Not Just A Number” web site. The service won the Service Journalism Award from ONA for an amazingly powerful view of crime data. The basic premise was to create a data visualization for … Continue reading →

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Data dynamics: How the rules of sharing are changing

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Today it’s easy to store and share my pictures, my favorite URLs, my thoughts and lots of other things online. There are a range of data repositories that allow me to do this kind of thing in different ways. What … Continue reading →

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