Following Malcolm Coles’ piece on how the Guardian, Times and FT are winning on Twitter, Sothisischristmas graphed the results:
I discovered Google’s Fusionchart by accident. One of our scientists, who left the company to form his own agrochemical patent-tracking subscription news using Blogspot, used this free javascript-based software to illustrate this rather turgid subject matter. I borrowed his idea and used Fusionchart to illustrate a life science story on Neogen, a diagnostics company. Life science reporting, like technology reporting, employs unnecessary
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My iPhone’s gmail is full of messages today.
I hope the ‘lively debate’ is over by now.
Currently, there is a debate going on the NUJ Newmedia email forum. I got inspired to do this Wordle chart. How do I make the word ‘Effing’ big’?
After years writing for both print and web, I decided to express myself in a different way. I’ve done photojournalism for some time now, but I need another form of expression to convey humour in my narration. Photography is cool, but much too refined for lampoons (feel free to disagree with me). Paul pointed me to a few websites on
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Two stories from TechCrunch this week highlight how the internet has the potential to bring the dryest subject matter to life.
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