links for 2010-12-31

• DATA: Without adding context, a the journalist with data can be dangerous « David Higgerson
  Adding context to data, ie putting the numbers into perspective often produces a better story, or at least a more accurate one.
  (tags: data news journalism)
• WSJ uses Foursquare to warn of Times Square bomb | Poynter.
  Wall Street Journal innovation using Foursquare for breaking news.
  (tags: foursquare news tool)

links for 2010-12-29

• Ruby on Rails for Beginners | Webmonkey | Wired.com
  A handy guide to starting out with Ruby.
  (tags: tutorial howto web2.0 web Ruby code)

links for 2010-12-22

• Consequences of covert recording of MP's advice surgeries | Online Journalism Blog
  Interesting look at the Telegraph coverage of Vince Cable-gate.
  An MPs surgery is a public forum.
  (tags: Cable recording press journalism)
• Meet the online video heroes of 2010 « Adam Westbrook
  Great examples of video from Adam Westbrook
  (tags: videoinnovation video teaching journalism)

links for 2010-12-17

• So You Want to Be a Journalist
  Yes, we'd all like to live our dreams.
  (tags: journalism jobs video media funny)
• #newsrw: ScribbleLive to help freelance journalists earn money from liveblogging
  ScribbleLive launching a new service for freelancers live blogging.
  ScribbleLive is a brilliant tool.
  (tags: Scribblelive live blog news services)
• The Best Services for Migrating Your Delicious Bookmarks
  Delicous alternatives
  (tags: delicious bookmarking social lifehacker alternate links)
• News:Rewired | TheMediaBriefing
  News Rewired blogs from The Media Briefing.
  Find out what you missed.
  (tags: newsrw)
• Delicious to be scrapped? Some alternatives « slewfootsnoop | tips, tricks and sources for journalism online
  Alternative to Delicious
  (tags: tools delicious socialbookmarking bookmarks links)
• Scraping PDFs: now 26% less unpleasant with ScraperWiki | Scraperwiki Data Blog
  Scraping PDF is less painful apparently.
  (tags: data PDF Scraperwiki)
• Newsrewired: Why news needs game mechanics and journalists should stop telling stories | TheMediaBriefing
  Patrick Smith's audio interview with Trippenbach after interesting presentation on situations and stories at #newsrw.
  (tags: journalism, gaming storytelling narrative)
• Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
  Delicious alternative ideas
  (tags: delicious curation libraries history links)
• Pinboard – antisocial bookmarking
  Alternative to Delicious
  (tags: bookmarking social delicious web tools)
• Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.
  (tags: web2.0 bookmarking collaboration tools social)
• http://www.mento.info/
  Alternative to Delicious
  (tags: bookmarking social web2.0 socialnetworking links)

links for 2010-12-16

• Tweeting in court: why reporters must be given guidelines
  An interesting article relating to the current debate about open courts. On one side the likes of Roy Greenslade and Heather Brooke would like to see recording and Tweeting in courts and there's the side t doesn't.
  There is an argument for both, but now we have shorthand and it does give focus as you concentrate in what's being said rather than just listening and hoping your recording device picks up what's going on.
  (tags: Twitter Law journalism court reporting)

links for 2010-12-15

• The top 50 passwords you should never use | Naked Security
  I do not use any of these passwords or anything like them.
  (tags: passwords)

links for 2010-12-10

• Filming the student fees protests | Help | guardian.co.uk
  Guardian video team explains process of filming student demonstrations.
  (tags: film video journalism teaching)
• Taking sides in a riot
  "AntonVowl" on why protest coverage may seem biased.
  Note a few areas of trouble are more interesting than the majority milling about. Trusted sources have the means to send out the figures quickly.
  (tags: protest news journalism)

links for 2010-12-09

• bellaale's dayx3 photo from Twitter
  Screen shot of Demo 2010 Google map
  (tags: map google)
• LIVEBLOG: Tuition fees vote – Channel4 News
  Great use of live blogging software by Channel4
  (tags: coveritlive socialmedia news journalism)
• BBC News – How social media changed protest
  Use of social media by protest movement protest
  (tags: activism protest social_networking media)
• What are the legal issues around recording 'public' council meetings (and how can you address them)? on Help Me Investigate
  Help Me Investigate launches investigation into why council meetings can't be recorded
  (tags: council recording journalism news)

links for 2010-12-08

• Staffs Police reach 5,000 followers, expect pat on the back for not engaging. | Philip John
  Crit of one way social media use by Staffs Police
  (tags: Police socialmedia)
• Smartphone Users Prefer Mobile for Breaking News [STATS]
  Great graphic to go with data on how US smart phone users consume information.
  (tags: news journalism mobile consumer teaching data futureofnews)
• Nearly 5,000 followers on force social media sites
  (tags: police)
• Parents can photograph their children in the school nativity play – and not break the law – Telegraph
  A story from a year ago with the Information Commissioner saying it wasn't illegal to take school pictures.
  (tags: journalism pictures schools)
• Dad threatened with arrest over school play photos – ParentDish – UK
  Parent Dish story about a father threatened with arrest for taking pictures of a school play.
  (tags: school pictures)
• BBC News – Nativity photos not against law, says data watchdog
  BBC story about a father who says he was threatened with arrest after taking a picture of his daughter in a school nativity.
  (tags: pictures data journalism schools news)
• Information and Advice on Taking Photos in Schools – ICO
  The easy to follow guide for journalists facing issues with schools who "ban" photographs or attempt to use "data protection" as an issue not to take names etc.
  (tags: school news data journalism)
• Media free to use pictures of school plays and sports – Press Gazette
  Article from 2004 I used to take around to schools who used to say newspaper photographers were banned etc.
  (tags: schools journalism)
• How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. « Emily Bell(wether)
  (tags: journalism teaching wikileaks)
• Examples – OS OpenSpace developer wiki
  (tags: map journalism teaching)

links for 2010-12-07

• Grappling with Google maps: Creating a ward map of Cardiff « How to microblog in high heels
  Hannah Waldram on grappling with Google maps and local government data.
  (tags: data journalism map mapping teaching)
• Five reasons why Facebook Credits will save newspapers | Dave Lee / jBlog
  Interesting ideas on the development of social gaming as a business model for newspapers
  (tags: facebook journalism paywall paidcontent)
• What would Stalin think? Council newspapers should be made more democratic – not banned | TheMediaBriefing
  Council newspapers and authority's need to engage with its community
  (tags: newspapers localgovernment cuts)
• Malcolm Bradbrook cyberambles: Wikileaks: Can you have too much of a good thing?
  The good, bad and ugly of Wikileaks cables. A one-sided conversation…
  (tags: journalism news data wikileaks)
• Data journalism training – some reflections | Online Journalism Blog#comment-181994#comment-181994
  Pointers on data journalism training from Paul Bradshaw
  (tags: data journalism teaching)