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Data journalism pt5: Mashing data (comments wanted)

This is a draft from a book chapter on data journalism (part 1 looks at finding data; part 2 at interrogating data; part 3 at visualisation, and 4 at visualisation tools). I’d really appreciate any additions or comments you can make – particularly around tips and tools. UPDATE: It has now been published in The Online Journalism Handbook. Mashing data Wikipedia defines a
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Posted by Paul Bradshaw on May 04, 2010
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Search and filter tweets using Friendfeed advanced search

I’ve never been fond of the search engine on Twitter, not the one on search.twitter.com anyway. I have found the ones build on it’s API much friendlier and more intuitive, such as Twitterfall and the integration in Tweetdeck. But none of them work for finding old tweets. Google is not much help either, unless you know how to create your
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Posted by Kasper Sorensen on Oct 01, 2009
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Search Options: Google adds more intuitive search tools, ‘takes on Twitter’

It’s often said that Twitter’s big advantage over Google is its ability to allow you to conduct ‘real time search’ – if an event is happening right now, you don’t search Google, you search Twitter. But today Google has announced a series of features that, while still not offering real time search, take it just that bit closer. For me
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Posted by Paul Bradshaw on May 12, 2009
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1000 things I’ve learned about blogging

To mark 1000 posts on this blog, I thought I’d reflect on what I’ve learned since post #1. UPDATE: Now available in German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Portuguese. UPDATE 2: I’ll be posting further ’1000 things’ via Twitter – you can find them with this search or this RSS feed.

Posted by Paul Bradshaw on Sep 05, 2008
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Reviewed: FriendFeed and CoverItLive

I’ve written two reviews over at JournalismEnterprise.com: CoverItLive is “a Twitter-meets-chatroom-meets-poll that you can embed on your site.” and the much-hyped FriendFeed is “Facebook, but uglier and more flexible.”

Posted by Paul Bradshaw on Mar 26, 2008
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