If you thought you couldn’t use the Google Maps API any more as a journalist, this update to the Google Geo Developers Blog should make you reconsider. From Nieman Journalism Lab: “Certain web apps will be given blanket exemptions from charging. Here’s Google: “Maps API applications developed by non-profit organisations, applications deemed by Google to be in the public interest, and
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This week’s Hyperlocal Voices interview looks at the long-running SE1 website, which boasts half a million visits every month. Despite being over 12 years old, the site remains at the cutting edge of online journalism, being among the first experimenters with the Google Maps API and Audioboo. Who were the people behind the site, and what were their backgrounds? The
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Just thought I would quickly post a screengrab of the way protesters at UCL are using Google Maps to provide a rolling update of what’s happening. (h/t Claire Wardle)
On May 25th we celebrate the Argentinian Bicentenary. And while the big media aren’t showing any really interesting initiatives, we have Tu Bicentenario, an independent and experimental journalistic project that aims to give real-time coverage to the main events of the celebrations with social tools and user-collaboration. With a highly customizable website that integrates different movable boxes, including Facebook, Twitter,
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This was originally published in Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits last week Google Latitude – a service that allows people to see where you are – has launched 2 new services – Location History and Location Alerts - that provide some interesting potential for mobile journalism. Location History (shown above) allows you to “store, view, and manage your past Latitude locations. You can
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Elections bring out the best in online journalism. News organisations have plenty of time to plan, there’s a global audience up for grabs, and the material lends itself to interactive treatment (voter opinions; candidates’ stances on various issues; statistics and databases; constant updates; personalisation). Not only that, but the electorate is using the internet for election news more than any
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Thanks to all those who have so far added themselves to the OJB readers’ map – it looks very impressive. I had a couple emails from people who arrived at the map to find it called something else – ‘Mark Weber’ or ‘Félix Bahón’. One of the problems of making it editable, it seems, is people accidentally changing the name
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If news organisations thought they were starting to ‘get’ this whole internet journalism thing, yesterday may make them think again. At 8pm GMT yesterday I received a breathless email from Azeem Ahmad, a student from the journalism degree I teach on: “Tell me you have seen the Google Maps/Twitter mash up of the American Super Tuesday voters.. it’s amazing! The
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