Andrew Revkin’s Big Job
By BradStenger | April 29, 2008
Andrew 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 his exceptional productivity and willingness to experiment that make me confident he is the right person for the job.
A recent post outlines his upcoming plans and he asks for suggestions. Please give him your help. And somebody give him a raise.
So even as humanity is in the midst of conducting the vast “geophysical experiment” of rapidly altering the global greenhouse, a growing array of people — scientists, communicators and campaigners in their various realms — are also experimenting with new ways to consider and respond to this problem (or issue, in the parlance of the White House).
Dot Earth has greatly lengthened my workday, eating up time that could be spent reporting stories for the printed paper (or being with family and friends). But I believe it’s unavoidable, necessitated by the nature of our times, in which complexity and uncertainty shape events as much as the things we understand well. The days when the media could do their job by summarizing developments of the day — epitomized by the reassuring Walter Cronkite signoff, “And that’s the way it is” — are long gone.
That said, I will be shifting a bit more of my workday back into reporting and writing for print in the coming months, so my post rhythm here may slow a bit. Themes I’ll be exploring, both on the Web and in the paper, include the question of whether the next (and necessary) green revolution can be “green” in the environmental sense. I’d be happy to hear from you on that.
Topics: Content Management, News Gathering, News Interfaces, Productivity | 1 Comment »
Wilson Miner’s Accessible Data Visualization
By BradStenger | April 14, 2008
Wilson 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 2005 (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/22/sparklines.html). The original idea goes back to a May 2004 Ask E.T. post by Edward Tufte (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR).
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Upcoming Conferences related to Computation + Journalism
By BradStenger | March 16, 2008
- Mashup Camp 6, Mar 17-20 at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. One of the best run, most popular unconferences out there. No cost to attend.
- NewsTools2008, Apr 30-May3 at Yahoo! Conference Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Bill Densmore and his team have put together a great group of news and technology leaders, with plans to discuss, design, and begin to build systems that will sustain “journalism that matters”.
- Google I/O, May 28-29 at Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Two days of learning about Google APIs and open web technologies.
- OSCON, July 21-25 at Portland Convention Center in Portland, OR. The Open Source Convention, where attendees (2500 people expected) go deep into all sorts of technology and software howto-s.
Topics: Automation, Mashups, News Interfaces | No Comments »
Post-Conference Links (All)
By BradStenger | March 5, 2008
| Video from forum on journalism and technology link |
| Wiring Journalism 2.0 - Columbia Journalism Review link |
| Where are the reporters? link |
| Computational Journalism Symposium link
Journalism 3G recap link Reflecting on the first date link |
| Computer Scientists and Journalists Look for a Common Agenda link
Coverage of computational journalism conference at Georgia Tech link |
| Sensemaking and nonsensibility. link |
| Journalists and technologists: an uneasy courtship - MediaShift Idea Lab link |
| Computational Journalism - Maybe A Way To Describe My Niche? link
Making journalism compute. link UNEDITED: Georgia Tech: Keynotes and ubiquitous journalism link Computational Journalism: Day 1 link Citizen Journalism At The Computational Journalism Conference link AUDIO: “21st-century editors” at Georgia Tech — tech needs link A plea for journalists to understand technologists link Live Webcast of Journalism 3G: A Symposium on Computation + Journalism link AUDIO: Participant journalism, interacting, authoring link TV Satellite truck in a 65-pound backpack link AUDIO: A plea for journalists to understand technologists link Elizabeth Spiers’ secret sauce link World’s Largest Kid Tries $100 Computer link Compute! Report! link |
| Journalists and Industry Experts to Converge at Georgia Tech to … link |
| A meeting of the new-media minds this weekend in Atlanta - Online Journalism Review link |
| Computation + Journalism = ? link |
| Computation + Journalism = ? - MediaShift Idea Lab link |
| computation & journalism link |
| Headed to Computational Journalism Georgia Tech link |
| Computational Journalism link |
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Videos from Symposium now available
By Sergio Goldenberg | March 2, 2008
All the videos from the Symposium are now available here in Flash Video and Quicktime Streaming formats. Soon we will be also posting Podcast (download) versions.
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