Away
Here are the things I've been up to elsewhere on the internet.
markng: @stephendwolff National Institute for Computer Aided Reporting. I'm at their annual data-journalism conference.- markng: watching #endtimes #sxsw tweets; I *definitely* chose the right conference. #nicar
- markng: @tommorris Lift felt very strange to me, too. I only tried for a day though.
- markng: people at #sxsw seem to be talking about newsmedia (and this case the NYT) dying. People at #nicar are talking about how to make it rock.
- markng: people who claim that their brand of politics is "patriotic" and someone elses isn't make me sick.
- markng: think I made the right content choice for #sxsw versus #nicar, but I'm really missing the chance to catch up with London/Brighton friends.
- markng: thinking about leading an expedition to @joesrealbbq from #nicar later. Anyone interested?
- markng: flex builder requires *rosetta* ? WTF ?
- markng: if anyone at #nicar wants to know about #hnews or #relprinciples, come find me or @ me at some point today.
- markng: geodjango is honestly huge in newsrooms in America, I think. Everyone seems to be using it. #nicar
Tile Drawer- markng: RT @dneighbors: Pulled a @terrysimpson and used lotion as conditioner this morning.. Luckily I don't have much hair.
- markng: huh. The twitter location stuff seems to have had shapefiles added to it to do *proper* geolocation. Is this just for Austin/SXSW ?
- markng: super tired. Going to miss the first #nicar session of the day.
- markng: @jemimakiss didn't we do the same with mining and steel production, too ?
- markng: @jemimakiss Music.
- LittleSis - Profiling the powers that be
- Harvest The Web
- markng: Home from #nicar. Great day.
- markng: didn't realise 30 banks had already failed this year in the US. #nicar
- markng: "I first did this in 1983 on a commodore 64, that's why I'm a CAR veteran" Wendal Cochran #nicar
- markng: "If you're talking about banking data, you should at least have a beer. I'm a bridge to the beer." Wendell Cochran #nicar
- markng: @alixbryan yeah. Took seeing it for me, too. #documentcloud #nicar
- markng: this guy is a pretty good speaker. The presentations I've seen today are a level up from yesterday #nicar.
- markng: listening to a presentation about forensic accounting #nicar
- Tiles | MapBox
- CloudMade Maps
- indiemapper - Free yourself from GIS
- DIY Map: Create clickable maps in Flash
- markng: http://littlesis.org/ , from the crowd #nicar
- markng: "can you just tell me where all the lies are ?" (in this transcript) #nicar #linguistics
- markng: rapid fire ideas for tools that people like me could build to advance journalism. #win #nicar
- markng: two best talks so far in a row, documentcloud, now advanced reporting tools. #win #nicar
- markng: OH Sarah Cohen: "we haven't really changed how we do reporting since we got email".
- markng: watching @sdoig talking about advanced reporting tools
- markng: @pilhofer sorry you couldn't make it to #nicar, would have loved to have met you.
- markng: I'd say that @documentcloud is significantly more exciting than I first thought it would be. #nicar
- markng: @longcreative yup - you here today ? We should meet up.
- markng: OH: "did you not see my magic slide ?" #nicar
- markng: seems @documentcloud have given a lot of thought into how to make a bunch of hard to work with tech accessible to many more people. #nicar
- markng: documentcloud looks very useful. I wonder how much you can build apps on top of it? #nicar
- markng: RT @ScrewYouSXSW: Here's a reason @TechCrunch We can see what an iPad looks like after smashing it over my hubby's head. #crunch #sxsw ...
- markng: finding out more about documentcloud #nicar
- markng: @caiges that's definitely the case, but I know I occasionally over-engineer solutions. Can you say you never do the same ? #nicar
- markng: @jameswragg it's a nice range for journos who here range from tech-savvy-ish right through to genuine programmers. #nicar
- markng: @jameswragg grabbing data from pages. Some firefox plugins, yahoo pipes, perl + mechanize and python. #nicar
- markng: they're also talking journalists through some HTTP basics, firebug and perl. Think presenter is doing a pretty good job. #nicar
- markng: @caiges but for non-programming journalists, tools like http://bit.ly/b5EGcr do pretty well. They often don't need to be repeatable. #nicar
- markng: I need to make a mapping infographic with my mood depending where I am in the valley. Gradient red=northwest -> green=southeast.
- markng: watching journalists being taught how to webscrape. Didn't consider that alot of them are using firefox extensions, rather than scripts.