June 6, 2008 | 16:46
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Online journalism
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Now that the primary season is over and the general election campaign is heating up, it's time to introduce a fun little electoral vote map built by my colleague, Sean Connelley. What's unique about this one is that you can create your own scenario here and then grab some ...
May 13, 2008 | 7:59
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Leisure
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Whether or not you believe Barack Obama is Mr. Wonderful, this percolating politics meme is kind of a hoot: Jason Kottke is aggregating tweets that start with "When Obama wins"...
April 1, 2008 | 23:34
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Online journalism
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I'm not an angry journalist, but it's hard not to be drawn to the alternately sad/funny/heartless/clueless screeds at AngryJournalist.com. Seeking some aggregate wisdom from the 2,794 comments posted to date, I captured all the venom and slammed it through TagCrowd (omitting various forms of the words "angry" and "journalist"). ...
February 11, 2008 | 20:53
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Online journalism
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I'm looking forward to attending the Journalism 3G symposium on computation and journalism at Georgia Tech Feb. 22-23. If you're a news geek, I can't imagine a better place to be. If you're going, ping me.
February 4, 2008 | 1:47
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News & views
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For sale on Amazon.com: 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots, by The Boston Globe.
Guessing the Giants might quibble with that title.
(via E&P)
January 20, 2008 | 23:21
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Online journalism
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The students in my online media class at USC are looking for the technical skills that will help land them jobs in journalism, and I want to help them identify what those skills might be. I have a pretty good idea, of course, but I thought I'd be more ...
January 6, 2008 | 12:03
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L.A. Stories
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Seriously, guys. WTF? Yet another reason to boycott Pinkberry and patronize yummy Cefiore in Little Tokyo instead. Who's with me?
December 22, 2007 | 18:42
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Technology
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OK. So, I know these are supposed to be for underprivileged children and all, but I just had to get my hands on the OLPC XO laptop, quite possibly the coolest tech gadget of the year. Sure, my BlackBerry probably has more processing power, but an afternoon spent playing with ...
December 10, 2007 | 21:05
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Online journalism
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Our latest interactive data project, launched today, is the 2008 Primary Tracker. It's a visual guide to next year's crazy presidential nominating season, which begins earlier and culminates faster than any in U.S. history. Check it out.
November 18, 2007 | 13:24
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Online journalism
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News websites are starting to see some competition on the local data front from niche players that do one thing very well. Witness SignalMap, which maps users' reports of cellular reception, and CleanScores, a database of restaurant health inspections in L.A. and San Francisco (credit to Joe Murphy for pointing ...
