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links for 2008-08-28

BBC - Radio Labs - Archers - an everyday story of web development Making a show into a database: ...

links for 2008-08-27

Flight Tracking in 3D with fboweb.com and Google Earth; real time for LAX, BOS, ORD, ATL, JFK, MIA, SEA, SFO Inbound Flights ...

links for 2008-08-25

mattwaite.com | New app: Neighborhood Watch Matt Waite on putting the "journalism" in "database journalism" -- and the launch ...

links for 2008-08-24

Chris Harrison's Visualization Projects Some interesting text visualizations from a Carnegie Mellon PhD student. My favorite, I think, ...

links for 2008-08-22

Twentysomething Journalist Alas, I no longer fit this description, but that might not stop me from lurking here. ...

links for 2008-08-20

Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history A nice Flash interactive showing the routes of famous journeys ...

links for 2008-08-18

Official Google Blog: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... Google counts words on ...

links for 2008-08-12 [delicious.com]

Update 2008.08.16: I'm having some trouble getting my Delicious bookmarks to post automatically to the blog. The first batch worked; subsequent updates didn't. Anybody got any pointers? Is it even a good idea to include them in main blog feed, or should I just throw in a ...

November 19th 2008
Category: News 2 Comments

My next assignment: covering online journalism

I've spent 10-plus years working from within to change newspapers in some small way. Now I hope to effect change from the outside. Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times to travel and learn and share stories about the ...
November 6th 2008
Category: News No Comments

Who says newspapers are dead?

The scene at Second and Spring streets, downtown Los Angeles, 2 p.m. PST Nov. 6, 2008: For the second day since the election, the line of people seeking copies of Tuesday's paper outside the Los Angeles Times building is around the corner. (Copies of the paper are also listed at a substantial ...
November 5th 2008
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New at latimes.com: Slice and filter California election results

In my last few weeks at the Times, I've largely been preoccupied with imagining and building our election data widgets for use on election night.  It might seem silly to spend so much time preparing for an event that's over so quickly.  But I think we've found at least one ...
October 27th 2008
Category: News 2 Comments

Leaving the Times

I want to say something about what took place today at the Los Angeles Times, where I've worked for nearly 5 years. It's a drama that repeats itself in newsrooms across the country and has already taken place more times than I care to count during my tenure at the Times. The ...
October 27th 2008
Category: News 2 Comments

Backchannel on blogging

What happens when you put a bunch of bloggers in a room, feed them pizza and moderate a discussion on their craft? You end up with two real-time conversations: One in the physical room and the other in the Twitterverse. I know that's no surprise to those who populate this corner ...