Institute for Analytic Journalism

A partnership between the Carter Center, the University of Calgary and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas has produced an interactive web mapping tool designed to map and display media locations and ownership and electoral reform. The site focuses specifically on 12 countries in the westenr hemisphere and displays socio-economic data as well voting patterns and media locations (e.g. radio antennaes, newspaper offices, etc.). The site still seems to be in its infancy as the interactive mapping tool seems to work only for Canada. The maps themselves are reminscent of CAD drawings and could benefit from a better cartographic design. (Currently it seems a little difficult to access, probably because of traffic.)

Read the press release on GISUser.com."

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It's not that information wants to be free but it does want to be found

by JTJ on Wed 08 Feb 2006 08:49 PM MST

Danny Sullivan, a long-time search engine maven, has this to say. (Newspapers? Clueless? Gasp! How can it be?)

"World Association Of Newspapers Dislikes Search Engine Exploitation, Clueless About Robots.txt Banning

Newspapers want search engines to pay over at News.com covers the World Association Of Newspapers planning to challenge the "exploitation of content" by search engines. Apparently search engines are taking newspaper content for free and repacking it up within things like Google News and Yahoo News. A task force to study the isssue is being formed, DMNews reports in Newspaper Group Questions Aggregation of News Content. Reuters also has coverage here.

Hey WAN. Don't like being in search engines? Tell your members to put up a robots.txt file to block the search engines, and they'll be happy to drop them. When they do, then blogs and other news sources can have the traffic the search engines were previously sending to your members.

FYI, I'm trying to finishing a rundown on what the New York Times has been doing recently to gain search engine traffic. Watch for that soon. In the meantime, see this past post about what Marshall Simmonds did for About.com and is now doing for the NYT.

Posted by Danny Sullivan on Feb. 1, 2006 | Permalink"

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