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Info Viz Links From Class

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Here is a list of some of the Visualization examples shown in class today:

TextMap
Election Map
Cartograms
NewsSniffer
SOTU
Market Map
Digg Stack
TenByTen
News Map

Political Content Analysis

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

This site, PoliticalTrends, does some interesting content analysis of online political content, mostly from blogs and has some nifty visuals to go along with it. You can see the break down of sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) in the blogosphere with respect to each candidate.

Blogger Profile

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

This is old news but I recently read the survey report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled, “Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers.” The report describes a phone survey of bloggers in the US, which was done in the 2005-2006 time-frame. Here are some take aways that I thought were […]

Interesting News Related Sites

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Interesting news related sites:

http://www.newser.com/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
http://www.allvoices.com/
http://www.everyblock.com/

SAJAforum: MEDIA WATCH: Times of India’s new “Private Treaties” - guest post by Salil Tripathi

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

SAJAforum: MEDIA WATCH: Times of India’s new “Private Treaties” - guest post by Salil Tripathi
Check out this article and the related site.

Journalism + Balance

Friday, January 18th, 2008

An excerpt from “Journalism and Truth,” by Tom Goldstein, which I though succinctly describes the issue with trying to be balanced in reporting.
“Most journalists go to extremes to demostrate balance–even if the underlying facts clearly point in one direction. But balancing opposing statements will not necessarily yield truth, which rarely has two sides in the […]

Information Quality and Intentionality

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

This is a post I wrote up on my blog a while back which gets at some of the issues we talked about today in class regarding quality and intentionality in media.

Kid Power: Aaron Broder, Kid Reporter, Blitzes CES, Gets the Scoops

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Kid Power: Aaron Broder, Kid Reporter, Blitzes CES, Gets the Scoops.
Also, see http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/press_corps/meet.asp

Colorado Confidential:: ‘Real’ Colorado Journalists Wear Purple

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Colorado Confidential:: ‘Real’ Colorado Journalists Wear Purple

Should Citizen Journalism be “regulated”

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

See the following two Op-Ed pieces in AJC.

Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky by David Hazinski

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/13/citizened1213.html

(Google Cache of this article!)

Citizen journalists: They don’t need to be regulated by Leonard Witt

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/13/witted_1214.html

(Google Cache of this article)
at PJNet

See POLL regarding this on the T-Square site for this class.

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