The following is part of a chapter for a forthcoming book on online journalism. Contributions welcome. Maps have become a familiar part of the news language online due to a number of advantages: They provide an easy way to grasp a story at a glance They allow users to drill down to relevant information local to them very quickly Maps
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This season, after years of loyalty to the BBC/Channel 4 fantasy football competition, I’ve switched to The Guardian’s. Their game takes advantage of the reams of player data now available to newspapers – not just goals scored, clean sheets and assists, but also clearances, interceptions, tackles, shots on target, and so on, making for a very different challenge indeed. The
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I’ve written before on just how important geotagging will be in preparing for a mobile future – well, now that mobile future is here: “Apple’s newly unveiled second-generation iPhone includes a news service from the Associated Press which provides stories tailored to an individual user’s location. “The application uses the phone’s in-built GPS (global positioning system) and serves stories based
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Image by Sid05 via Flickr This weekend’s tool-to-play-with is Yahoo! Pipes. Chances are you’ve heard of Yahoo! Pipes (it’s been around for over a year and I’ve blogged about it before) but if you’ve not played with it yet, now is the time to have a go. Pipes is essentially a mashup tool, particularly useful for doing things with RSS
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What happens when you bring together local journalists, bloggers, web publishers, online journalism experts and new media startups – and get them talking? That was the question that JEEcamp sought to answer: an ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship that looked to tackle some of the big questions facing news in 2008: how do you make money from news when
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The team at JournalismEnterprise.com have been busy – here are some of the most recent reviews: Pownce: a Twitter with bells on. EveryBlock: Adrian Holovaty’s much-anticipated news mapping service gets a five-star rating. Newstin: multilingual news search: “Its taxonomy engine goes way beyond the usual keyword and tags approach. For each article, Newstin’s engine is able to tell you what
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