March 2012
22 posts
Knight News Challenge: Data Networks are Local:... →
newschallenge:
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Grow the OpenStreetMap community and extend the network with open source tools for editing, managing tasks, and serving fast data.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
No. Existing editors and task…
Life and Code: The Kind of Programming Journalism... →
lifeandcode:
Computer programing is a vast domain, stretching from embedded systems that end up being the brain of your refrigerator to vastly sophisticated algorithms that let Wall Street traders defraud the public detect and capitalize on trends.
The good news for people who want to learn how to program…
“Being in a political business, I had long made a habit of reading biographies of...”
– Iggy Pop
“‘Interesting things’ or ‘smart things’ are not rubrics...”
– Matt Langer, Stop Calling It Curation
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“We notice when we are distracted by some newfangled app on a Kindle Fire. We do...”
– Alexis Madrigal, Books on Paper Fight Analog Distractions
“People weren’t science. People were a mess.”
– Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
