Institute for Analytic Journalism

Friend and mega-librarian Marylain Block's "Neat New Stuff" column (http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html) points us to another example of a great community-building tool. She writes:

• Outside.in
http://outside.in/
Steven Johnson aims to "collectively build the geographic Web, neighborhood by neighborhood." So far it's added various kinds of data for over 2500 neighborhoods. Entries may range from neighborhood restaurants, shops, and museums, to descriptions of historic architecture or local celebrations. If your city or neighborhood isn't here yet, you can upload data to begin a file for it (librarians might add their own libraries to the database). This has the ... more »

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The Quick and the Dead

by JTJ on Thu 09 Nov 2006 03:04 PM MST

Paul Parker, of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, is the Quick and an impressive list of folks on the state's voter registration rolls are the Dead this week. Below is a note Parker posted to the NICAR-L listserv. The great thing about this is the recipe Parker provides for an analytic journalists' cookbook. Said he: Nothing new or innovative, but we ran a dead voters story today, and it's getting tons of buzz. I would recommend -- no, URGE -- everyone on the list do the same for your area. Here's the link: http://www.projo.com/extra/election/content/deadvoters9_11-09-06_DN2P2GR.33b46ef.html more »

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