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enviroVOTE: Tune in tonight to track the environmintiness of the elections
This morning, Ryan Mark and I launched enviroVOTE! Conceived last Monday, and built in a three-day coding sprint that ended in the wee hours this morning, the site tracks the environmental impact of the elections by comparing winning candidates with environmentally-friendly endorsements. The numbers Amy Gahran got the scoop with her E-Media Tidbits post: The site’s home page features [...]NYT’s new Visualization Lab: They bring the data, you mix the charts
As announced on their excellent Open blog, the Times rolled out a neat tool yesterday: The New York Times Visualization Lab… allows readers to create compelling interactive charts, graphs, maps and other types of graphical presentations from data made available by Times editors. NYTimes.com readers can comment on the visualizations, share them with others in the [...]Better online video for news: Short movies = long pictures
Today’s great post from Mindy McAdams reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had recently about online video. News organizations are trying too hard! There’s an easier way to tell video stories on the web. The web is not TV Television news has gotten us used to a specific format of video. But a TV [...]Creating real-world social constraints with Facebook Connect
In our efforts to increase connections among the fine citizens of Cedar Rapids, Team Crunchberry has decided to integrate our efforts with a cool-as-hell new way to leverage social networks, Facebook Connect. Facebook says Connect will enable users to: Seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site Connect and find their friends who also use your [...]Building a news product with agile practices: How we’re doing it
The Crunchberry Project is using agile software development practices as we build a new product for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. On the team blog, I’ve begun writing a series of pieces detailing our process. Part one was a brief attempt at defining agile and explaining why it’s important: What can happen in a year? Twitter catches on. [...]Profile Information
- What news organization do you work for?
- Medill News Service, Northwestern University
- Which of these best describes your day job?
- Student
- About Me:
- I am a programmer, journalist and masters student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. I'm one of the first two recipients of the Knight News Challenge scholarship for hacker-journalists.
My blog, Sixth W is a place for journalism-oriented discussion of emerging web technologies. If you're here, I think you might like it.
- Blog:
- http://sixthw.com
- LinkedIn Profile:
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianboyer
- Twitter:
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Read your blog post "Pimp my newspaper! Printcast my ride!" Thought it had some great observations. Keep up the good work with the blogging. I always learn something when I read "The Sixth W."
All the Best,
-M