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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MozNewsLab’
Hacktoberfest = Hacktoberfun
Posted: October 3, 2011 in My Data JourneyTags: HacksHackers, hacktoberfest, Knight Foundation, Mozilla, MozNewsLab
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Introducing MoJoNewsBot – helping build a social, data driven, virtual newsroom
Posted: September 23, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data JourneyTags: data journalism, MoJo, MozNewsLab, ScraperWiki
Things have been quiet on the blog front and I apologize. What began as a tumultuous year with a big risk on my part has become even more turbulent. Happily with opportunities rather than uncertainties. Trips to Germany and the US have landed in my lap. Both hugely challenging and exciting. I completed the Knight [...]
The Big Challenge: The final outcome of the Knight-Mozilla learning lab is a one to two page (800 to 1,000 words max) proposal – that includes a “show and sell” pitch, design document and business brief – for a software product to be integrated into a news organization. Build upon an idea you submitted as [...]
Journalism: To Learn, to Teach, to Know
Posted: August 2, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data JourneyTags: Chris Heilmann, datajournalism, datajournalismblog, Evan Hansen, Jesse James Garrett, Mohamed Nanabhay, MozNewsLab, Oliver Reichenstein, ScraperWiki, Shazna Nessa
So I say this is a journey, I say this is an experiment. In that case this blog is my journal/lab book. I am coming up to the end of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab and you’ll read my proposal shortly. Although it wasn’t coding-led, it did highlight the importance of coding for the future of [...]
I’m over the half-way through the Knight Mozilla Learning Lab with lofty goals of changing the way we experience news online. I came up with my idea after filming a rant by my friend and colleague. I threw down something very quickly on paper and have since made wire frame mock-ups using MockFlow (thanks Chris [...]
Here’s a video of my friend Francis saying how online news is s**t. He started giving out so, having a background in broadcast journalism, I filmed him for the purpose of the Knight-Mozilla News Challenge. Now Francis doesn’t have a TV or radio and doesn’t read the newspaper (he gets The Economist). For daily news, [...]
Build a business for your newsroom or make building a newsroom your business?
Posted: July 14, 2011 in My Data JourneyTags: MozNewsLab
Burt Herman, former bureau chief and correspondent for The Associated Press, CEO of Storify and founder of Hacks/Hackers gave the following webinar to the participants of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab: Burt Herman: Follow the story Here is my take on how the elements needed to build a business for a newsroom are also what [...]
Back to University – sort of…
Posted: July 10, 2011 in Data Journalism, My Data JourneyTags: MozNewsLab
I thoroughly enjoy pottering along to hack days, workshops, meet-ups and data journalism camps. Anywhere that brings developers and journalists together is the place to be. The underlying trend I find in attendance (besides developers) is freelance journalists and teachers (university and industry). Now I love learning a bit too much having spent far too [...]
