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New (er, improved) at latimes.com: Electoral vote map

Added a few fun features to our electoral vote map, including regular analysis between now and the election by the Times' Mark Z. Barabak: (This embedded version of the map hasn't changed. Go to the vote map page on latimes.com to see the improvements.)

New at latimes.com: Electoral vote map

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 ...

March 6th 2010
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Checking in from Canada

In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
November 9th 2009
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Posted here and there

The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months: Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
October 2nd 2009
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What would you teach aspiring journalists about the internet?

It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course. I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...
September 2nd 2009
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Police radio play-by-play lands German Twitterer in trouble

I did this online journalism-related write-up last week for Spiegel International. It didn't run there, so I'm posting it here (with permission, of course): When a 71-year-old pensioner killed three people and wounded a fourth in a shooting spree last month in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police response unfolded in real time ...
August 22nd 2009
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Search trends and geography

I know it's been around for a year or more now, but I still can't stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It's a trend-spotter's dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential ...