If you don’t already know, this year brings a fresh new challenge to a journo-coder wannabe who calls herself DataMinerUK. I am a Knight-Mozilla fellow at the Guardian and am looking to learn to code and make news in the open. As such I have moved this blog to a self hosted website: http://datamineruk.com/ where I can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mozilla’
New Year, New Site, New OpenNews!
Posted: January 23, 2012 in My Data JourneyTags: Knight Foundation, Knight-Mozilla, Mozilla, OpenNews, The Guardian
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My Life as a Startup – The Road Not Taken
Posted: November 8, 2011 in My Data JourneyTags: fellowship, Knight Foundation, mozfest, Mozilla
So things have gone quiet on the blog front but screamingly loud behind the scenes. I have met some amazing and inspiring people in both the US and Canada. A lot of them have been taken aback by my journey which I have documented here and which I should update on my timeline. I have [...]
Mozilla Festival – Media, Freedom and the Web
Posted: October 28, 2011 in EventsTags: HacksHackers, mozfest, Mozilla, ScraperWiki
To gain knowledge, insight and foresight into the developing media landscape, the best forms of education lie outside the classroom. I am a huge proponent of self-learning through experimentation. So I constantly go to events, lectures, hackathons and conferences. I have recently been to HackHackersNYC and HacksHackerTO, as well as universities and newsrooms in the [...]
Hacktoberfest = Hacktoberfun
Posted: October 3, 2011 in My Data JourneyTags: HacksHackers, hacktoberfest, Knight Foundation, Mozilla, MozNewsLab
So I’m back from Berlin and in the US. I met some amazing people at the Knight Mozilla Hacktoberfest, a 4 day hackathon with people from all over the world and from all walks of life. It was the most fun I’ve had all year and I’ve made some friends for life. The project ideas [...]
