In a guest post for OJB, Jerry Vermanen explains the background to RegioHack The internet is bursting with information, but journalists – at least in The Netherlands – don’t get the full potential out of it. Basic questions on what data driven journalism is, and how to practise it, still have to be answered. Two Dutch regional newspapers (de Stentor
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Allison White has written this wonderful roundup of last week’s news for the OJB. But now she’s got a job. Persuade her to do this again in the comments… Google -Announced no desire to create content and will respect copyright. It added face-blur technology to its Street View mapping serivce to protect privacy. Also speculation from Groves Media on whether
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Just to let you know that the News Interactivity Index now includes newspapers from Norway (thanks Kristine Lowe), France, the Netherlands and the US. You can use it to compare any two newspapers or country averages. The following countries are now covered: France Hungary Macedonia Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Spain Switzerland UK US
Recently my attention has been drawn to the Dutch news website www.en.nl. Wilbert Baan, interaction designer for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, told me he wants to see “what we can do with news, social networks, wikis and more. “I think you might like the experiment we are doing,” he wrote. And bloody hell was he right.
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