Last night OpenHeatMap creator Pete Warden announced that the tool now allowed you to visualise UK data. I’ve been gleefully playing with the heat-mapping tool today and thought I’d share some pointers on visualising data on a map. This is not a tutorial for OpenHeatMap – Pete’s done a great job of that himself (video below) – but rather an outline
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Earlier this year I interviewed blogger Mike Atkinson, who launched Parwich.org in 2008. I wanted to get a feel for how the reality of hyperlocal blogs compared with the perception (there are other interviews to follow). Here are his responses: Who were the people behind the blog, and what were their backgrounds before setting it up? Local villagers (current team
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Global news provider Small World News Service and online research company OnePoll are looking to undertake a large study which will research how the public access and use news online. After discussing possible angles to take with the survey, it was decided that it would be good to work with the Online Journalism Blog to crowdsource possible avenues to take
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The following is cross-posted from Claire Wardle’s blog: Late on Monday night, I wrote a short post in anticipation of the crowdmap I’d just set up for BBC London, which I hoped would provide a useful service the following day for the London tubestrike, 7th September 2010. It’s now Wednesday morning, and I can write, while still feeling slightly shell-shocked
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Having made significant inroads in opening up council and local election data, Chris Taggart has now opened up charities data from the less-than-open Charity Commission website. The result: a new website – Open Charities. The man deserves a round of applause. Charity data is enormously important in all sorts of ways – and is likely to become more so as
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One of the mistakes that people new to blogging often make is to write as if they’re addressing a crowd. “Hey everyone!” they shout. “Can any of you help with this?” Speak to people who teach radio journalism, and you’ll find similar experiences. Radio and online journalism have this in common: they are typically consumed alone. We listen to the
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Argentinian politicians of all parties are now fervent Twitter users, as I stated in my previous OJB post, and they don’t hesitate in arguing shamelessly about all national matters in 140 characters. The new foreign minister, Hector Timerman (@hectortimerman), is maybe the most enthusiastic Twitter user of all the government officials. Every day you can read him discussing with national
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