Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com Takes, as afar as I can tell, the rss from MSNBC and let’s users navigate via visual interface. Also allows content to be saved, keyword searches, etc. Very very nice (tags: rss news2.0 visualisation) Blogged… Continue Reading
PICNIC – Create the future through collaborative creativity From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world will come together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. I think I’d like to go to this…… Continue Reading
Last night I went to a Eurovision party. It’s something people all over Europe do – often dressing up in strange outfits to support the underdogs in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual music competition. But the party I went to… Continue Reading
Leukaemia: blogging a personal tragedy | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk “If the soul of regional newspaper publishing is in the human story, it should be no surprise that the most popular blog on Trinity Mirror’s network is… Continue Reading
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)