Measuring Informational Distance Between Cities | FlowingData ” The metric to determine strength of relationship takes several contexts into account – Google searches for individual cities, cities together, and geographical proximity”. (tags: visualization academicresearch statistics) Comments on ‘BBC’s Today Programme… Continue Reading
I wasn’t able to make it to ThinkingDigital in Newcastle but many of the people I follow on twitter and read elsewhere are there so I’ve made a conference tracker using yahoo pipes to help me keep up with all… Continue Reading
BBC news correspondent on Escaping Burma’s Special Branch “You know how when you walk around foreign country you always get plagued by taxi drivers everywhere you go? Well it does not happen when the police are after you…” (tags: burma… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, at the Glocal 2.0 conference in Skopje, Macedonia, I found myself being interviewed on national television, in the leading weekly news and current affairs magazine, by the leading national newspaper and a web based portal.… Continue Reading
Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine (hey, that’s me he mentions) Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter… Continue Reading
BBC Have Your Say map: China earthquake mashup of comments, eyewitness reports on a google map (tags: mashup bbcnews china)
Newspaper Asks Bloggers for Help “Every newspaper should be a portal to the bloggers, Flickr and YouTube posters and others who are creating media about the towns and neighborhoods in the circulation area.” (tags: citizenjournalism usergeneratedcontent networkedjournalism DanGillmor linking aggregation)… Continue Reading
The FASTForward Blog » China Quake – Twitter Comes of Age as THE Breaking News Tool: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary A good round up of all the different ways that people and news orgs used twitter to… Continue Reading
As soon as I saw the news of explosions in Jaipur, India, I headed off to tweetscan to see what it pulled up, finding yet again that twitter is becoming an indispensible tool for journalists and others seeking immediate first… Continue Reading
dopplr adds carbon calculationsOriginally uploaded by robinhamman Perhaps I’m not the first to spot this, but dopplr, a social networking service that allows users to store and share their trips, has added a carbon footprint calculator (here’s mine). The flaw… Continue Reading