CrisisCamp Haiti going on today #ccHaiti
CrisisCamp Haiti, a crisis mapping volunteer event being held in multiple locations today, Saturday January 16th, which is going “to bring together volunteers to collaborate on technology projects which aim to assist in Haiti’s relief efforts by providing data, information, maps and technical assistance to NGOs, relief agencies and the public.”For more information about CrisisCamp, [...]
Government Offers Data to Miners – NYTimes.com
Eric Gundersen, DC drupal rockstar and prez of devseed gets some NYT ink in this piece. Government Offers Data to Miners – NYTimes.com.
Join the Great American Hackathon | FlowingData
Sunlight Labs, one of my new favorite data groups, has partnered with Google, RedHat, Mozilla, and several others to get the open source community involved in open government projects. They’re calling it the Great American Hackathon and it’s happening December 12-13. For those unfamiliar with Sunlight, it’s an organization that promotes open government data and [...]
drupal audio module is making me grumpy
has anyone got a fix or working version of the audio module on drupal 6.14 – i need the playlist function and am getting this error: warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty bootstrap.inc | drupal.org.
WaPo's POTUS Tracker is nifty
just fiddling around this new tool over wapo a bit today. it is an interesting method of visualizing the time economy devoted to certain issues on the administrative agenda. i’m all for creative uses of data-driven interactive graphics to visualize more than just numbers and cartography. check it out at this link. POTUS Tracker’s capabilities [...]
Journalistopia » Tips for Optimizing Content for Google News – Danny Sanchez on Online Journalism
Journalistopia » Tips for Optimizing Content for Google News – Danny Sanchez on Online Journalism. Danny’s got a great summary of the goog’s latest guide to get rolled in news.
WYSIWYG, TinyMCE and img_assist – working versions #drupal
My comments after a dreadful experience with drupal upgrading over the weekend are posted here: WYSIWYG, TinyMCE and img_assist – working versions | drupal.org. i sincerely hope it helps someone else who is banging their head everytime they have to upgrade this unholy trinity to get some kind of workable backend for content producers in [...]
Oracle To Buy Sun (and MySQL) For $7.4 Billion.
eeeeek – shudders at the prospect of mysql in the hands of the oracle licensing people - note to self. must start working with postgres more. Updated: Less than a month after it walked away form a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with [...]
#DataJourn part 1: a new conversation (please re-tweet) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
* How do both parties (data and interactive gurus and the journalists) benefit? * Who should get credit for new news stories produced, and how should developers be rewarded? * Will newsrooms invest in training journalists to understand and present data better? * What problems are presented by non-journalists playing with data, if any? * [...]