Jon Hickman reviews iPhone tripod Gymbl Pro. Jonathan Ive didn’t design my iPhone with a pistol grip. Instead of a hard, brittle feeling, bumpy, plastic case, Jonathan Ive fashioned a fetish object wrapped in perfectly smooth flat glass. Jonathan Ive did not design the Gymbl Pro, by Youbiq. Would Jonathan Ive use a Gymbl Pro in pistol grip mode to shoot
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Here’s another Something for the Weekend post. Last week I wrote a post on how to use the =importFeed formula in Google Docs spreadsheets to pull an RSS feed (or part of one) into a spreadsheet, and split it into columns. Another formula which performs a similar function more powerfully is =importXML. There are at least 2 distinct journalistic uses
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Time was when a journalist could learn one or two writing styles and stick with them. They might command enormous respect for being the best at what they did. But sometimes, when that journalist moved to another employer, their style became incongruous. And they couldn’t change. This is the style challenge, and it’s one that has become increasingly demanding for
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It’s been over 2 years since I stopped doing the ‘Something for the Weekend’ series. I thought I would revive it with a tutorial on They Work For You and Google Refine… If you want to add political context to a spreadsheet – say you need to know what political parties a list of constituencies voted for, or the MPs
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During some training in open data I was doing recently, I ended up explaining (it’s a long story) how to pull a feed from Delicious into a Google Docs spreadsheet. I promised I would put it down online, so: here it is. In a Google Docs spreadsheet the formula =importfeed will pull information from an RSS feed and put it
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Back in February I blogged about the process of teaching journalism students to think about working with communities. The results have been positive: even where the strategy itself wasn’t successful, the individuals have learned from its execution, its research, or both. And so, for those who were part of this process – and anyone else who’s interested – I thought
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Here’s another set of questions I’m answering in public in case anyone wants to ask the same: How can broadcasters benefit from online communities? Online communities contain many individuals who will be able to contribute different kinds of value to news production. Most obviously, expertise, opinion, and eyewitness testimony. In addition, they will be able to more effectively distribute parts
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Various commentators over the past year have made the observation that “Data is the new oil“. If that’s the case, journalists should be following the money. But they’re not. Instead it’s falling to the likes of Tony Hirst (an Open University academic), Dan Herbert (an Oxford Brookes academic) and Chris Taggart (a developer who used to be a magazine publisher)
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Mauro Accurso has followed up his rapid translation of last week’s inverted pyramid of data journalism with a Spanish version of part 2: the 6 C’s of communicating data journalism. It’s copied in full below. La semana pasada les traduje la primera parte de La Pirámide Invertida del Periodismo de Datos de Paul Bradshaw que prometió extender en el aspecto de
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Last week I published an inverted pyramid of data journalism which attempted to map processes from initial compilation of data through cleaning, contextualising, and combining that. The final stage – communication – needed a post of its own, so here it is. UPDATE: Now in Spanish too. Below is a diagram illustrating 6 different types of communication in data journalism.
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