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Monday, September 7
The Evolution of Darwin's Ideas
by
analyticjournalism
on Mon 07 Sep 2009 11:55 AM MDT
FlowingData passes along the link to this fine piece of work by Ben Fry. "Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas" Journos could be using a similar approach to analyze the evolution of the ideas of public officials.
Ben Fry Visualizes the Evolution of Darwin’s Ideas
"Ben Fry, well-known for Processing and plenty of other data goodness, announced his most recent piece, On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, made possible by The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online.
The visualization explores the evolution of Charles Darwin's theory of, uh, evolution. It began as a less-defined 150,000-word text in the first edition and grew and developed to a 190,000-word theory in the sixth edition.
Watch where the updates in the text occur over time. Chunks are removed, chunks are added, and words are changed. Blocks are color-coded by edition. Roll over blocks to see the text underneath.
As usual, excellent work, Mr. Fry."
Friday, March 14
Another class of workgroup tool
by
Tom Johnson
on Fri 14 Mar 2008 01:59 PM MDT
Increasingly, we find ourselves working on various workgroup projects here at the IAJ. And increasingly our project colleagues are widely scattered. Today, for example, we will be communicating with folks in Santa Fe, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and one guy who is attending a conference, possibly somewhere in the Ohio River Valley. We've have been using PBWiki for much of this work, but sometimes one just needs to literally see the other guy's digital desktop.
A report today from the always-helpful Internet Scout points us to:
TeamViewer 3.5.4011
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
If you are working with a friend on a joint project and he is in Houston and you are in Shanghai, what do you do? You could take a glance at TeamViewer, a program that allows for desktop sharing and file transfer. Visitors just need to run TeamViewer on both machines and the program can also be used to create and display presentations. This version is compatible with computers running Window 95 and newer.
Tuesday, December 4
If you're really serious about searching....
by
Tom Johnson
on Tue 04 Dec 2007 06:29 PM MST
Deep Web Research 2008
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2008.htm
By Marcus P. Zillman, Published on November 24, 2007
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years, and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed over the years into the "invisible" or what I like to call the "deep" web. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 900 billion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. Search engines currently locate approximately 20 billion pages.
In the last several years, some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to search the deeper portions of the world wide web by attempting to find files such as .pdf, .doc, .xls, ppt, .ps. and others. These files are predominately used by businesses to communicate their information within their organization or to disseminate information to the external world from their organization. Searching for this information using deeper search techniques and the latest algorithms allows researchers to obtain a vast amount of corporate information that was previously unavailable or inaccessible. Research has also shown that even deeper information can be obtained from these files by searching and accessing the "properties" information on these files.
This article and guide is designed to give you the resources you need to better understand the history of the deep web research, as well as various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find those key sources of information nuggets only found by understanding how to search the "deep web".
This Deep Web Research 2008 article is divided into the following sections:
ARTICLES, PAPERS, FORUMS, AUDIOS AND VIDEOS (Current and Historical)
Wednesday, September 20
Knowledge Management in the Newsroom
by
Tom Johnson
on Wed 20 Sep 2006 12:48 PM MDT
If
you want to generate a glazed look of incomprehension in a audience of
journalists, just ask, "How many of you work for an organization that
has someone assigned to coordinate knowledge management throughout the
company or at least for the newsroom?"
We're not talking
about someone who acquires and coordinates databases, a task typically
assigned to news researchers, but rather someone who studies what
digital (or potentially digital ) data resources exist within the
entire company and how might those be leveraged to generate new or
better insights, stories and, possibly, revenue streams.
The
first journalism-specific book on the topic came of Stephen Quinn, a
professor at Deakin University in Australia. Quinn's book, "Knowledge Management in the Digital Newsroom,"
appeared in 2002 and draws examples from many U.S., European and Australian publications.
Now comes a similar work by a team led by Prof. Guy Berger that studied African newspapers of varying size and sophistication.
Author/s: Weza et al.
Date Published: 31/08/2006
File:
download (1554.115 KB)
Description:
This book tracks the state-of-play in a selection of independent
African newspapers, both big and small. It also points the way forward,
with explanations of "convergence", "content management", and
"enterprise management". In short, it shows what theories and systems
of Knowledge Management can offer the African media.
For other titles, see: http://www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.za/publications.cfm
We will be
posting a review in coming days, but until then, go to the link above
and download a copy for yourself. The download price is right -- free
-- and doing so will save the mailing costs from Grahamstown, South
Africa.
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