February 2012
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Local news sites fold. But is that a problem?
Susan Mernit of Oakland local cites a study by J-Lab showing that 50% of the local sites they tracked have folded.
My question: is that actually a problem?
Many of the institutions that journalists revere are over a century old. But that doesn’t mean that perpetual existence for its own sake should be a goal for any startup, including a news startup.
susanmernit:
“Of some 1,200 sites...
Programming calms one down immensely.
True dat.
Except when debugging, and then it’s
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“Screw your FOIAs. I’m done. I’m a civilian now. You leave me the hell alone.”
– West Virginia Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson said Wednesday, after he announced his resignation. (via ohnewsroom)
FOIAMatic, anyone?
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lisacanter asked: so I did the first unit on udacity per your repost. It's very cool. I suspect you are past these things but thought I'd see if you were enrolled.
mishidems asked: Thank you for reblogging my post :3 I'm having fun learning a new language and refreshing my knowledge on the basics :D
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Hackers and Painters →
This is a wonderful essay about computer science and creativity and how they overlap. Read it!
Dan K's Blog: Words with Reps: Map of Vocab on the... →
dfkoz:
What am I looking at? This map shows the breadth of vocabulary of each of the nation’s 435 voting Representatives. A darker green color indicates that a Rep has a larger vocabulary. There are 6 non-voting Representatives excluded from the map, though they are included in the rankings. The…
The Magnificent Map of Rap Names →
keanery:
An update to the Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names, I believe.
OMG! It’s like hip-hop meets Treasure Island. With AJAX. OMG.
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Neat use of ManyEyes to visualize survey... →
designaday:
One of the questions in my survey asked what languages respondents were proficient in. I categorized the languages by type and turned the responses into a treemap with the help of Many Eyes.
As you can see, client side languages are the most popular, with HTML and CSS leading the way. That…
“I can think of no better strategy than to learn programming. This is a skill...”
– http://bit.ly/yt7wGo
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Datawrapper, a project by DataStory →
jochmann:
Yay, more automated creation of visualization!
You may remember that we are still waiting for visual.ly to open their lab and release the kraken. Erm, I meant their creation tool. Well, here’s a working alternative for you to check out. It’s free, too.
I’ve seen some of the results embedded on German news sites and they looked decent enough. The tool creates solid charts and graphs,...
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Ruby on Rails Screencasts - RailsCasts →
gsappcloud:
Video resources for learning Ruby on Rails
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It’s a trend: Newspaper buildings are worth... →
daniscalifornia:
Content is worth zero, but newspaper buildings are worth selling. How long before this happens to the U-T? They should come downtown and work next to the startups.
^^^^ YES ^^^^
The top 25 browser tools for web designers and... →
dtrejogo:
Excelentes herramientas para desarrolladores web.
Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software... →
tradereads:
GitHub’s geektastic 14,000-square-foot loft mirrors its mission: to democratize computer programming. GitHub.com is best thought of as Facebook for geeks. Instead of uploading videos of your cat, you upload software. Anyone can comment on your code and add to it and build it into something better. The trick is that it decentralizes programming, giving everyone a new kind of control....
Steve Spiker: Code for America in Oaktown? →
stevespiker:
Today the City of Oakland met with Code for America to learn more about the fellowship and how it could benefit our town. We had representatives from the Mayor’s office, the new deputy Administrator, city council and ourselves. There was real excitement from the city folks about this partnership,…
I'm Telling You, This is Fun →
gemstonegames:
After the first unit, at least. Enter Udacity, an online school dedicated to computer science. It’s very new, and doesn’t actually offer a degree, but its got interesting material, and does a good job of mimicking a university setting, even going so far as to give you grades for homework assignments, as well as a final exam. There are currently two courses; one that focuses on...
Starting a Basic Turn Based Game →
thedeveloperlog:
A great little tutorial on Game Center and turn based games. This should be a small start.
Whoa, I know what I'm reading next...
brndwltr:
PhD Thesis, Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts - http://yaxu.org/thesis/
The Hacker Shelf | Community-curated collection of... →
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Bill Campbell makes future of journalism his next... →
dbloom:
Interesting piece on the involvement of Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell in bringing together the joint Stanford-Columbia venture to explore the future of journalism, funded with $30 million from the original Cosmo girl, Helen Gurley Brown.
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“I think news organizations have to get really, really serious about creating a...”
– Khoi Vinh, a New York-based graphic designer answers the question: How should media publishers deal with the fact that readers are increasingly getting news, links, and more from a range of sources filtered through social networks? Is anyone doing it particularly well?
(via soupsoup)
LW sez:...
Dems: GOP won’t let us televise contraception... →
Sounds like a job for liveblogging. Who’s in?
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deck.js →
senceablemoscow:
How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js
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On Data Science
detailtalk:
The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.
- Hal Varian
Here is a primer for folks in data science and those exploring for resources & discussions around...
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“If someone could read, but they couldn’t write, in our society today, it would...”
– Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on Amazon? Robots. - Business - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)
^^^^^^YES THIS^^^^^^
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Learning to program isn’t enough. If you...
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Start:Code: Starter programming languages →
I would love to see — and I’d pay for — a Scratch curriculum aimed at kids. I’m currently looking for a Scratch tutor for an 11 year old.
startcodelabs:
We have decided to use Scratch and Python as the starter programming languages in our Labs. We recently discussed how we arrived at this decision in our blog. Do you agree? If not, what do you think are the best...
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– Life and Code, the blog for journalists who want to learn to code, dive into data journalism, and more.
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Bootstrap, from Twitter
mykliam:
“a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.” http://mykl.us/xgzoIc
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Github wants to teach kids how to code →
huertanix:
Here at GitHub, we think it’s important to contribute to our future. Since kids will eventually grow up (so we hear) we think it’d be awesome to teach them how to code. We’re working with CoderDojo to bring their awesome kid-code-teaching classes to the US.
Similar to an idea I failed to find funding for in 2011.
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Web FWD: Ready to Stop Talking and Start Making... →
webfwd:
WebFWD is somewhat a “startup of startups,” having launched barely 7 months ago. So if there’s one thing we encourage, it’s the ability to move, act and adapt quickly. While we’re certainly keen to read and learn, we’re also big proponents of just getting stuff done. So we were thrilled…
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's... →
maschup:
Google is currently making a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyes in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year.
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