The New York Times has been out ahead of other major newspapers in their use of data visualization in their political coverage. The 2008 campaign was particularly noteworthy. The link below shows a fascinating time based study of all of the presidential candidate’s fundraising through the primaries and on to the general election. [...]
From today’s Google blog:
10/26/2010 10:00:00 AM
Journalism is fundamental to a functioning democracy. So as media organizations globally continue to broaden their presence online, we’re eager to play our part on the technology side—experimenting with new ways of presenting news online; providing tools like Google Maps and YouTube Direct to make websites more engaging for readers; and [...]
I recently began reading Joe Trippi’s political memoir The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything. So far it is a satisfying read. Trippi’s style lives somewhere between the hyperbole of Hunter S. Thompson and the judgmental posturing of an editorial from a small town newspaper. Trippi is [...]
Bagpainter Chris Crites was kind enough to provide a custom bag painting for the inaugural issue of the Brown Bag Mag. The Brown Bag Mag is a lit/arts journal that I have been working on for about 7 months along with Anne Blackburn, Mathew Echert, Kate Fernandez, Brian Healy and Jen Zeyl. The magazine will premiere [...]