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Free tools for digital journalism, storytelling 21 May 2013 | 04:11 pm
[photo by OZinOH] I wanted to share a list of cool, free multimedia tools from a talk I presented last night at Florida International University during a meeting of the fledgling Hacks/Hackers chapter...
Tips For Driving Traffic To Your Big Interactive Project 12 Feb 2013 | 06:15 pm
The denizens of the NICAR listserv were having an interesting discussion today about ways to get more attention and traffic on the data-driven projects they create. These projects often require huge a...
Justice League of data journalists pitches online courses via Kickstarter 28 Jan 2013 | 09:41 pm
It’s enough to make a newsroom data nerd squeal. A who’s-who of application developer journalists have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create educational materials on building web apps, data visual...
How To End Repetitive Newsroom Typing [Tutorial] 24 Jan 2013 | 08:35 pm
Typing can really get in the way of creating content. There’s the typing of repeat responses to readers,story lineup templates, repeated staff reminders and so on. All of that garbage typing gets in t...
Interpreting City Rankings, Heat Maps 20 Jan 2013 | 02:48 am
When you see those press releases about top cities for [insert attention-getting attribute here]…
6 Awesome South Florida Media, Tech Events Coming Soon 20 Jan 2013 | 01:55 am
South Florida is totally kickin’ it during the next few months with great multimedia and tech events. There’s Code With Me for those wanting to get started in multimedia. WordCamp Miami is great and i...
Free infographics, data visualization class by design guru Alberto Cairo 6 Oct 2012 | 03:13 am
Just as I was looking for a fun online course to keep my brain humming, I get word that Alberto Cairo at the University of Miami will be leading a free online course on infographic design and data vis...
How One Journalist Learned To Code: Tips For The Unafraid 17 Sep 2012 | 03:25 am
I'm not a guy building the latest killer app, but I sling enough PHP to be dangerous and empowered. Before I learned programming, I had learned some HTML and CSS, but those are really like knowing how...
Journalistopia 2.0 16 Sep 2012 | 09:51 pm
Journalistopia, it’s been too long. It’s time for the quintessential blogger’s “sorry I’ve neglected you” post. Since the last post went up here, a lot has happened that led my blog into hibernation: ...
Knight-Batten Award Winners Announced 20 Jul 2010 | 07:26 am
The Knight-Batten Award winners have been announced, and Sunlight Live took the $10,000 grand prize for its experiment in providing real-time data context to the live health care reform hearings. Oth...
