News Interfaces
« Previous EntriesLots of CnJ Questions. Lots of CnJ Answers.
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Marc Frons, chief technology officer, digital operations for the New York Times, is currently answering the public’s questions the Ask The Times forum at nytimes.com. He’ll be taking questions between July 28-Aug. 1, 2008.
Webmonkey.com posted a lengthy Q&A with Dan Jacobson from NPR and Derek Gottfrid from the New York Times about each of the […]
CnJ Activities
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Folks 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 […]
NY Times features (and hires for) Computational Journalism
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Google News is the subject of a 1500-word article in the NY Times’ Technology section, At Google, Slow Growth in News Site, by Miguel Helft. Journalism 3G keynote Krishna Bharat gets quoted near the end of the piece.
Last week, for instance, a cluster of articles on gay marriages in California included those from major national […]
Andrew Revkin’s Big Job
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Andrew Revkin, climate change beat reporter and blogger for NY Times, has one of the most important and difficult jobs on Earth. He’s watch captain as the planet undergoes epic transformative change, and as the impacts pile up in accelerating fashion. While his writing and reporting are up to the task he’s been handed, it’s […]
Wilson Miner’s Accessible Data Visualization
Monday, April 14th, 2008Wilson Miner recently wrote a nice how-to on displaying data (even large amounts of data and/or small amounts of screen real estate) using just html markup and CSS. … http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualization
I’d first thought that Joe Gregorio’s Sparkline Generator (http://bitworking.org/projects/sparklines/) would kickstart widespread use of the in-line, word-size info graphs back when he introduced his webservice in […]














