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CnJ Activities
By BradStenger | July 19, 2008
- Folks attending OSCON at the Convention Center in Portland this coming week (July 21-25, 2008) should check out Derek Gottfrid’s Birds of a Feather session on APIs and the New York Times taking place Thu, 7/24, 7pm in Room D139/140. The session comes shortly after a presentation by NPR’s Dan Jacobson, NPR: API and Open Source, at 5:20 in D138. The meeting will also have ample technical discussion of Drupal, Ruby on Rails, and content managers and web development frameworks in every shape and size.
- At SIGGRAPH2008 in Los Angeles (goes on for the week, 8/11-15, at the Convention Center), Irfan Essa, will be running a half-day class on Computation and Journalism. It’s scheduled for Wednesday, August 13, starting at 1:30pm, with more details to come. A quick look at the SIGGRAPH Advance Program shows that we’re competing with a technical panel discussion on “Jiggly Fluids” at roughly the same time.
- And Minnesota Public Radio in collaboration with Info Viz researcher and soon-to-be Stanford professor, Jeff Heer, have launched the Minnesota Employment Explorer. It’s a platform for ongoing community discussion of the state’s economic ups & downs, directing attention to swings in different economic sectors for the 2000-2007 period. The visual presentation of public data makes it digestible for interested citizens, easy for them to consider, and then share their insights, in keeping with MPR’s Public Insight Network and their success with innovative news interfaces.
Topics: Automation, Info Viz, Mashups, News Interfaces |