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 ...

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"). ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kudos to the San Jose Mercury News. After a series of demoralizing cuts that seemed destined to precipitate the newspaper's slide into oblivion, the remaining staffers have refused to write their own obituary. They're fundamentally rethinking how their organization should function — and, more importantly, they're doing it out ...

Here's the list of cities with the most blog posts per capita, according to outside.in, and an interesting discussion of the results: Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington, D.C. Portland, OR New York San Francisco Seattle Chicago Los Angeles (If you haven't heard of outside.in, it's a cool local blog aggregator that's well ...

OK, if that headline didn't totally scare you away, read on: My employer, the L.A. Times, is looking for some hybrid journalist-techies to help us build our interactive concepts team. This group will be the glue that binds our graphics, editorial and tech teams and takes the lead on building ...

Akamai has charts showing current online news consumption around the world. Peak in North America: 2.4 million visitors per minute. I'd say that's enough audience to build a business model around. (Thanks to Michael Owen for the link.)