DATA

JOURNALISM

07. Mai 2012
Can Data Journalism Save Newsrooms? Panel at the International Journalism Festival, Perugia, via Mediashift | PBS.

30. April 2012
The Data Journalism Handbook is here. Free on the web, book and eBook by O'Reilly.

22. April 2012
A peek inside the Data Journalism Handbook. A crowd-sourced resource, providing overview and insights.

STORYTELLING

08. Mai 2012
Love this: How To Survive A Robot Uprising (aka Robopocalypse). Sweet & terrifying at the same time.

07. Mai 2012
Re(de)fining Print and the Resurgence of the Magazine, via Hypebeast .

24. April 2012
The power of storytelling: How One Response to a Reddit Question Became a Big-Budget Flic, via Wired.

WEBSITES

12. Mai 2012
Slavery's last stronghold - CNN.com. Important story, well presented. Effective use of a long multimedia page.

07. Mai 2012
Personal.com lets people get the most of their small data, via GigaOm. Mix of "If this then that" with To Do Lists.

07. Mai 2012
Data-driven products: Is this data scientist a consumer’s best friend? Interesting approach here, via GigaOm.

PEOPLE

08. März 2012
So cool: Kartograph – rethink mapping. Created by Gregor Aisch (@driven_by_data)

15. Februar 2012
How can one person be so smart? Mike Bostock, creator of Protovis and D3.js

13. Januar 2012
Andy Kirk, founder of Visualising Data, creative design lead, blog editor. Best source for resources and monthly "best visualization examples".

07. Mai 2012
Step by step: how to start in a data journalist role. By Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog.

30. April 2012
39 Data and visualization blogs worth following, via Flowing Data

22. April 2012
Baby Steps in Data Journalism: Starting from zero, this Tumblr provides tools, links and how-to information. Great place to start.

19. April 2012
When data goes bad: How to identify corrupted, incomplete data, via Online Journalism Blog

15. April 2012
Presentation: Infographics for a Post-Flash World, by Geoff McGhee (via Malofiej 2012).

03. April 2012
Google Fusion Table: Tutorial shows you how to upload data, merge tables and create maps.

03. April 2012
Is scraping legal? Some perspectives and answers, via ScraperWiki Data Blog.

03. April 2012
Words of wisdom: 10 Things You Can Learn From the New York Times’ Data Visualizations, by Andy Kirk.

02. April 2012
Project Cascade: Visualising use and re-use of news over time and different networks, created by [nytlabs]

10. März 2012
Great overview: Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized), via DailyTekk

06. März 2012
Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work, via Flowing Data.

02. März 2012
Love this: Why Data-DrivenJournalism is no joke, via Mediashift | PBS

26. Februar 2012
Step by step: How to find relevant data, clean it, then get it visualized and published in 10-20 minutes, using Datawrapper.

25. Februar 2012
Taming the Elephant: Infochimps Platform makes it easier to build Big Data stacks. Former internal system, now open.

24. Februar 2012
MUST READ: Why data-driven journalism is not rocket science - interview with Aron Pilhofer, New York Times.

15. Februar 2012
Why data visualization matters: The best data visualizations expose something new, by Julie Steele. Via O'Reilly Radar.

08. Februar 2012
Video: Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis, by Stanford Visualization Group

08. Februar 2012
Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. Pattern | CLiPS

08. Februar 2012
Help finish the Data Journalism Handbook - a list of where contributions are needed. #ddj #opendata

01. Februar 2012
Trends in Data Journalism (Study, 2012). Interesting overview and analysis of challenges.

20. Januar 2012
Spot is a cool visualizer for Twitter conversations: Search for a topic, then view relations from different angles. Go play.

20. Januar 2012
"What is the career path for a developer in a newsroom? There isn’t one right now", great post by Matt Waite

18. Januar 2012
Data Journalism Master Track, probably among the first worldwide, via Tilburg University.

14. Januar 2012
Could Google ever go down? My answer: Yes, quickly even, if they breach trust. Read the story of Mocality in Kenya.

13. Januar 2012
What is big data? An introduction - very good read. By Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Radar)

21. Dezember 2011
The Bastards Book of Ruby - programming for non-programmers. By Dan Nguyen (Pro Publica)

20. Dezember 2011
Great story based on data, well told: "Who are the richest people in Finland?", by Jens Finnäs (@Dataist)

20. Dezember 2011
Revisited: The most extensive list of tools for data-driven journalism that is out there, by Andy Kirk.

12. Dezember 2011
How data journalists at The Guardian investigated the data from the riots, by Simon Rogers (Guardian Data Blog).

08. Dezember 2011
A must-see introduction/overview: Data-driven journalism and data visualization by Jojo Malig on Prezi. Watch it and you get it.

04. Dezember 2011
Take Care of your Choropleth Maps: On the use of colour and grouping of findings. Via vis4.net (Gregor Aisch)

18. November 2011
How many smartphones are needed to lead the market? Comparison of market share vs profit, via minimally minimal

16. November 2011
The Data Journalism Handbook, written by hacks and hackers at Mozfest 2011. Here is a video about the project.

11. November 2011
How to scrape data from websites like Wikipedia, using =importHTML(“”,”table”,N).

18. Oktober 2011
Which chart for which data? Here is a very cool overview to get started, by A. Abela (2006)

12. Oktober 2011
How to use Open Data. Guidelines for Journalists, via Helsingin Sanomat, by Esa Mäkinen

08. Oktober 2011
The Data, The Scraper, The Tweeter and The Bot: Modifying data into news feeds, via Data Miner UK (Nicola Hughes).

19. September 2011
Building data science teams. What they need to know and how they work, via O'Reilly Radar

28. August 2011
Data Visualization for Non-Programmers, via Knight Digital Media Center. Great tutorial for beginners.

12. August 2011
Zanran is a search engine for data and charts. It looks into PDFs of studies, too. Fast way to find numbers for almost everything.

23. Juli 2011
Data journalism for beginners: How to analyze unfamiliar data - circle, dive, and riff (via Anne Bourgeon)

22. Juli 2011
Datadoodle: Where the humans meet analytics and related subjects. Frequent posts how to find meaning in data.

22. Juli 2011
Tutorial: How to use ScraperWiki to get data, even if you do not code.

19. Juli 2011
Making of: "How We Visualized 23 Years of Geo Bee Contests", via Datavisualization.ch

19. Juli 2011
Same As: A smart service for the coming web of linked data. Find datasets that are "same as" others.

14. Juli 2011
Open Data in Africa: "Kenya's quiet revolution", there is something going on here.

08. Juli 2011
Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack, via O'Reilly Radar

04. Juli 2011
Backgrounder: An introduction to "Linked and Open Data" for Information Professionals, by Zach Beauvais (Kasabi)

26. Juni 2011
PANDA Project is a “newsroom data application,” that helps find context and relationships on the fly. A winner at Nieman 2011

09. Juni 2011
"Data is evergreen content. Its value to users does not end after 24 hours", links to article by Rich Gordon (2007)

09. Juni 2011
Focus on story: If you are a journalist and interested in data stories, "Visualization as a Reporting Tool" is a must-read. (fixed link)

05. Juni 2011
How to make searchable, Web-based Google charts | Tutorial @Poynter, by Michelle Minkoff (again)

05. Juni 2011
McKinsey expects rising demand for data heads, resulting in opportunities for journalists - via Nathan Yau, Flowing Data.

04. Juni 2011
How to use Google Visualization tools. Short video tutorial shows you what journalists can do using tools that are out there.

03. Juni 2011
Bringing data journalism into curricula, by Michelle Minkoff

03. Juni 2011
Compile, Clean, Connect: The mantra of data journalism, presentation from Paul Bradshaw.

17. Mai 2011
The Social Life of Data: A new project from the UK. They ask the right questions, I just like the idea behind it.

13. Mai 2011
How Open Data Initiatives Can Improve City Life (via Mashable).

12. Mai 2011
Scraping, cleaning and selling big data. Via O'Reilly Radar, covers work of US-Company Infochimps.

12. Mai 2011
Cool: What happens to a data set once it is open? "The Social Life of Data" tries to find out.

08. Mai 2011
Learn Python with Google. It's an online tutorial, well structured and not too long to be scary.

27. März 2011
Needlebase = super-easy data scraping, merging, geo-coding.

27. März 2011
How to think like a data scientist: Seven secrets, shared by Michael Driscoll (Dataspora Blog)

26. März 2011
Corporations won't like this, but journalists do: Scraping financial information from offshore tax havens (by Open Corporates).

10. Februar 2011
Tutorial: Communicating Data Clearly, by Naomi B. Robbins, from Strata Conference 2011.

21. Januar 2011
Helpful Q&A site "Get the Data". If you are searching for datasets or have questions, this is a good place to go.

21. Januar 2011
The London DataStore and the apps built with information available there provide a good case why opening up data is the future.

04. Januar 2011
How to scrape data from websites, a guide and list of tools from ProPublica.

08. Dezember 2010
Tutorial: How to scrape data from a website. Here: 12.000 Restaurants in 12 minutes, using ScraperWiki.

08. Dezember 2010
Data-Journalist, this is for you: R is a powerful, open-source visualization software. Used by the New York Times and others. Cool stuff.

27. November 2010
Journalists need to understand how to program. But how? "Learn Python the hard way" is a good start. PDF is free. Don't let the title scare you.

14. Oktober 2010
There is an entry on "data-driven journalism" on the Wikipedia. It provides an overview, but can still be improved. Would you help us?

14. Oktober 2010
How to be a data journalist, written by Paul Bradshaw for the Guardian. Good entry point for everyone who is interested.

07. Oktober 2010
"Fractions of second" from the New York Times: An example how you can tell a story that is based on data.

07. Oktober 2010
Spendometer: A personal budgeting tool that is kind of fun. Intentionally playful and easy to use.

02. Oktober 2010
Metadata is a must for the future, but a pain today. See how the Associated Press works on this. Interesting.

02. Oktober 2010
Data-driven journalism: Only the start. This links to an article I wrote and let's you download a free PDF, over at EJC.net

30. September 2010
Journalism in the age of data: A documentary. See what the idea is all about. Created by Geoff McGhee.

30. September 2010
Geneva, Stanford, Amsterdam - different places, same message. A link to my data-driven journalism presentations from 2010.

22. September 2010
Schooloscope: A sensible approach to grade schools. It's in beta, but keeps a balance between informing and exposing. By Berg (London).

16. September 2010
Interested in data processing and visualization? Please meet Ben Fry, who wrote a book on how to process data. Even if you are not a coder.

14. September 2010
The World Bank provides access to large amounts of data from around the world. They relaunched the site and provide access for apps.

25. August 2010
Development of Facebook privacy - visualized by Matt McKeon in a way that let's you understand in an instant. Scary, too.

25. August 2010
Hal Varian in the McKinsey Quarterly: "I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians." Interesting read.

25. August 2010
How can you avoid a software project becoming a desaster? Here is some data. Ages old by web standards, but still relevant.

25. August 2010
The investigative reporting team of the Washington Post invested two years to collect stories and data: "Top Secret America."

25. August 2010
Where does my money go? -- An example how open data can be used for more clarity. This is just the start.

02. August 2010
In the past, one could get by on intuition and experience. Today, the name of the game is data. "Supercrunchers" is an interesting read on this.

22. April 2012
Datenjournalismus als Geschäftsmodell (in German): Blogpost about Open Data City, a smart data journalism start-up from Berlin.

15. April 2012
PEW: 72% of US adults are local news enthusiasts, survey says. Does not mean that they are enthusiastic about local newspapers.

14. April 2012
Start small, get it right: The newsonomics of small things. By Ken Doctor // Nieman Journalism Lab

22. März 2012
How Target figured out a teenage girl was pregnant before her father ... and why their analytic energy would be better spent on health

18. März 2012
Scrape it, map it, grab it: The Kind of Programming Journalism Needs (Is Simple), by Lisa Williams

10. März 2012
#SXSW 2012: Data-driven Journalism Unconference , with NPR, Texas Tribune, Buzzdata, Panda Project, Infochimps & Deutsche Welle.

10. März 2012
The term “data driven journalism” has become popular. Yet data illiteracy among journalists is high, says Aron Pilhofer.

04. März 2012
How I built my first app (with a little help) | Technology | The Observer

25. Februar 2012
"The visualisations I love are those that exhibit a very simple design execution but unlock disproportionately rich stories" - Andy Kirk

15. Februar 2012
The bond between data and journalism grows stronger: Interview with the Liliana Bounegru, via O'Reilly Radar.

18. Januar 2012
Why I started PandoDaily, by Sarah Lacy. Notable: A site covering companies en route to IPO wanting just the opposite for itself.

18. Januar 2012
Facebook Research: Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks. Interesting view, yet only the start of understanding the future.

10. Januar 2012
Tutorials | Knight Digital Media Center: If you want to sharpen your skills, here is a great resource.

11. November 2011
Rolf Dobelli: "News is to the mind what sugar is to the body". A critic of todays fast-food news production and consumption.

05. November 2011
The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times. A speech by Arthur Sulzberger

21. Oktober 2011
Entrepreneurial journalism: J++, short for Journalism++, builds datajournalism applications that help people make decisions.

19. Oktober 2011
Would your news organization accept a 30% failure rate when innovating? Some data how Google handles this, via Poynter.

12. Oktober 2011
"Existing journalism formats are not very good at engaging curiosity", via Jonathan Stray, in: "Designing journalism to be used"

23. September 2011
News organizations should build apps that solve problems, not just republish content, via Poynter

12. August 2011
Programming for mere mortals, an eBook series by Steven Frank. First issue: How to count.

31. Juli 2011
Data journalism at The Guardian: What is it and how they do it, written by Simon Rogers.

23. Juli 2011
What is a data-journalist? Brian Boyer calls them hacker journalists: Like a photo journalist, but with a laptop (via Michelle Minkoff)

20. Juli 2011
All the Guardian's data journalism articles. In one spreadsheet. Pragmatic approach, impressive results.

14. Juli 2011
Insightful analysis by Paul Bradshaw: 6 ways of communicating data journalism, via Online Journalism Blog

05. Juli 2011
What are the right metrics for newspapers? Answers here, from an interview with Brian Storm by Håvard Ferstad

01. Juli 2011
Open Data in the Newsroom: What's the story? My talk from OKCon 2011 (on Slideshare)

17. Juni 2011
Ever wondered why articles with numbered lists are so successful? Over at Cracked.com "listicles" become an art form (via Wired).

11. Juni 2011
How a false story went global: From Twitter to Reuters to all the big names in media. A cautionary tale: "Psychic Tips, Media Frenzies and Texas"

04. Juni 2011
Media executives: Stop fighting your employees, stop fighting your readers - Nick Bilton Interview @Storytell.in

04. Juni 2011
Page One. A documentary about the New York Times, here is the trailer.

03. Juni 2011
The future of advertising? This piece argues that "brand is story". Which means that well told narratives have a rising value, doesn't it?

09. Mai 2011
How journalists can "hack RSS feeds", find relevant stories and reduce information overload (via GigaOm).

08. Mai 2011
Inside the New York Times: A documentary, here's a link to the trailer.

04. März 2011
Media companies must become trusted data hubs: This links to reactions on Twitter. What is your opinion? Join the conversation.

02. März 2011
Co-wrote an article with Geoff McGhee and Nicolas Kayser-Bril: Media companies must become trusted data hubs - on OWNI.eu and Nieman Labs.

09. Februar 2011
Jonathan Stray » A computational journalism reading list. The most complete overview you can get right now. Really helpful.

21. Januar 2011
25 rules for Journalists - to write better, to find the story. Great stuff from Tim Radford, published in The Guardian

18. Dezember 2010
We saw a lot of movement for Data Driven Journalism in 2010. Here is a linklist to examples, presentations and other material.

27. November 2010
Anthony DeBarros has a to-the-point analysis how data affects journalism.

22. September 2010
The beauty of photoshop: The NYT shows how models look before and after. Innovative use of photo overlays. Must see.

12. September 2010
Looking for a place where the rules for online journalism are collected without too much clutter? Check out "Advancing the Story".

25. August 2010
"Finding the frame" let's you sent in your multimedia piece for review. Collaborative learning, I like the idea and the results, too.

25. August 2010
Mathew Allard (Al Jazeera) tests the Sony NEX-5. Maybe we get around buying a Canon 5D MkII. But only maybe.

25. August 2010
"Journalists working for journalists" - the claim of the European Journalism Centre is a fitting description of what they do.

25. August 2010
Presenting the facts is what journalists do. But how do people cope with that if they are plainly wrong? Read "How facts backfire" and you know.

25. August 2010
There is an important difference between a puzzle and a mystery. Malcolm Gladwell explains the "perils of too much information".

02. August 2010
Stijn Debrouwere, an information architect from Belgium, argues why journalism should focus on structuring information, not simply dressing up content.

23. April 2012
Christiano Ronaldo: Tested to the limit. Fascinating story, involving (lots of) data.

19. April 2012
So revealing: Six degrees of aggregation -How the Huffington Post ate the Internet, by Michael Shapiro

19. April 2012
Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android. Astonishing funding via Kickstarter. Really astonishing.

15. April 2012
Heart-warming: Caine’s Arcade: A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year old boy, short video.

13. April 2012
Smart, funny advertising: We know drama!

10. April 2012
Aron Pilhofer: “Medien sind nicht datengetrieben” | Datenjournalist

27. März 2012
How Athletes build their brains: The Science Of Growing Talent, by Joe Ward from the New York Times

02. März 2012
Beware of over-simplification: Telling a (data) story doesn’t tell the whole story, via Fell in Love with Data

25. Februar 2012
This is part funny, part disturbing: One writers experience when trying to sell a book. Short version: The bots take care of that.

16. Februar 2012
Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission, by Kurt Voelker. Very readable and clear.

15. Februar 2012
Great analysis: Narrative Visualization - Telling Stories with Data, by Edward Segel & Jeffrey Heer (Stanford Vis Group).

15. Februar 2012
This is - in a way - fascinating and revealing: The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia, via: The Chronicle of Higher Education.

08. Februar 2012
How it is and how it should be: The structure of great, engaging stories. Talk by Nancy Duarte @ TEDx East

14. Januar 2012
YouTube Player Gets Video Thumbnails and Storyboards: Helps to understand structures and flow of stories.

20. Dezember 2011
This is for storytellers: Introduction To Sequence Structure, by Neal Romanek. Great "Star Wars" example here, too.

14. November 2011
Colonista.de - a website telling stories from Cologne. It's my newest project, a platform for storytelling. Check it out.

11. November 2011
The Knife Maker, via "This is Made by Hand". Inspiring, wonderfully shot and telling a very personal story.

31. Oktober 2011
10 common video storytelling mistakes (and how to avoid them), by Adam Westbrook

30. September 2011
The joy of handmade, quality goods. A video collection worth watching, at "F**k Yeah Made in USA"

23. September 2011
Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything by F.S. Michaels (Book)

13. August 2011
8 Rules of Multimedia. Simple, compelling, easy to follow (via Digital Naturalist).

13. August 2011
M-U-S-T_S-E-E: 8 Hours in Brooklyn. Slow motion, incredible visuals (by Next Level Pictures).

31. Juli 2011
Charles Joseph Minard: Infographic displaying the death march of the French Army under Napoleon, published 1869.

21. Juli 2011
Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story. An amazing detail is how the film got funded via Kickstarter. Look up the number.

14. Juli 2011
Steve Buttry in reply to Jeff Jarvis: Why should storytelling stop evolving now? via The Buttry Diary

08. Juli 2011
"If it where my home" is a website, that is powered by a great idea and very well executed.

08. Juli 2011
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us — And How to Know When Not to Trust Them” by David H. Freedman

05. Juli 2011
How to create the ultimate TEDTalk, by Sebastian Wernicke. Advice based on statistical analysis, very funny.

29. Juni 2011
Good storytelling, what is that exactly? Need an example in 53 seconds?

26. Juni 2011
The Power of Story: Three attributes that make stories important, powerful and lasting forever (from TEDx Vancouver)

19. Juni 2011
Why storytelling rises in importance vs. brand building: The stories must be true.

17. Juni 2011
Hunting down the bots: A modern-day thriller story, from the real word. Well written by Christoper S. Stewart

05. Juni 2011
Gear guide for multimedia journalists - low, mid and high budget. Provides a good orientation (via Innovative Interactivity)

05. Juni 2011
Quote: "Is Twitter Like Speech or Like Writing? The Answer Is Yes." (via GigaOm)

04. Juni 2011
Mitch Alfus, father of three, husband of two. Leather King. A Selby Film. Incredible piece of work.

03. Juni 2011
How to shoot video that doesn't suck. Links to a promotion trailer for a book. But even the five tips there are gold.

24. März 2011
The Guardian: The path to protest. A masterful timeline to structure information about Middle East protests.

23. März 2011
Memolane helps you to visualize what you did, what happened. Nice way to use screenshots and photos.

18. Februar 2011
The Hot Spotters: A brilliant story in the "New Yorker", on how understanding patient data might help to repair our health systems.

11. Februar 2011
Funny & revealing: OkCupid analyzed the "Best questions to ask on a first date". Further proof that understanding the data is everything.

10. Februar 2011
The Sartorialist: A great online video about Fashion-Blogger Scott Schumann. Good Storytelling, impressive scenes.

13. Januar 2011
Moving from Soundslides to video? Here is a good tutorial from Mindy McAdams for iMovie.

13. Januar 2011
"Consider the Lobster", by David Foster Wallace. Just read it. Published on Gourmet.com, where it created some controversy.

05. Januar 2011
The Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling provides proof why data is sexy. This links to a short clip from the BBC programme.

04. Januar 2011
100 Things to watch in 2011 from JWT Research. This presentation is interesting because it makes you think about change.

06. Dezember 2010
Did you wake up this morning and could not remember what happened? Maybe you find the answer in "Texts from last night".

06. Dezember 2010
David McCandless talks about the "Beauty of Data Visualization" at TED in August 2010. Some of the examples he shows are stunning.

19. November 2010
"Give me something to read" is a site, where they collect long-form online journalism. An uncluttered site with gems of good content.

13. November 2010
"People are starving for good stories": Four short videos with Brian Storm we shot for Deutsche Welle in 2008, transcript by Håvard Ferstad.

13. November 2010
Close-up, disturbingly close: Photographer Tony Fouhse shot pictures of crack addicts in Ottawa. The series is called "User".

13. November 2010
Big question: Are successful entrepreneurs just "lucky fools"? Adam Smith thought so.

28. Oktober 2010
"Out my window" is a panoramic documentary by Katerina Cizek (@katciz). Stunning and creative.

07. Oktober 2010
A question that bugs me: If the 5D MKII is too expensive and you just want to shoot, which one is better: Canon 60D or Panasonic GH2?

01. Oktober 2010
If you want to be a star on Slideshare, you should STEAL THIS PRESENTATION. A good guide for presentation design.

28. September 2010
Storify enables you to curate tweets. Sort, filter, add - whatever. It combines real-time with overview, which is cool.

14. September 2010
Here is a link to Duck Rabbit, producers of fine multimedia. I like the fact that most of these studios have names like a motorcycle club.

14. September 2010
The portfolio of Story4, a multimedia production studio. They work for media and NGOs.

14. September 2010
Ira Glass (This American Life) sitting down to talk about storytelling - from basics to master. This links to part 1 of a series on YouTube.

12. September 2010
"Spill the beans" is a storytelling platform from Germany, most stories are in english. I hope that the market will open for such productions.

25. August 2010
"Give me something to read" is into long-form articles. The site is feeding the great Instapaper app on the iPhone. Feeds you with good stuff.

25. August 2010
"Take care", from a training workshop by Mediastorm. Shows that you should not judge a book by its cover.

03. August 2010
"The Mast Brothers" get delight from chocolate. This video makes you dream of working in a small company that focuses on quality.

02. August 2010
"Scrapertown" is one video in a series at "California is a place" and brings you to East Oakland. HD-Video and a great story.

15. April 2012
Cabin Porn: No, not what you think. It's a lovely photo tumblr. Makes you want to live elsewhere.

15. April 2012
What's Going On In The WordPress Economy? Key finding: Growing worldwide. By Siobhan McKeown // Smashing Magazine

03. April 2012
Andy Rutledge: "Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken". What can be done to fix this?

29. März 2012
Wind Map of the United States - live, interactive, amazing and beautiful. By Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viegas.

24. Februar 2012
Launched: Datawrapper. A simple, easy to use tool for data visualization, especially for journalists.

08. Februar 2012
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? By Michael Wolfe

08. Februar 2012
Responsive web design and the future of print: MediaShift Idea Lab investigates strategy of Boston Globe Online.

06. Februar 2012
Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.

11. Januar 2012
The Wirecutter | A List of the Best Gadgets. They have an interesting way of cutting away the crap, instead they get to a point.

21. Dezember 2011
The Atlantic: How One Magazine Became Profitable by Going 'Digital First', via Mashable.

02. Dezember 2011
Little Printer | BERG Cloud. Cute? Yes. Innovative? Definitely. You just gotta love the thinking behind it.

29. November 2011
Convoy: A Tumblr website presenting an overdose of inspiring, aesthetic mix of pictures. Pretty addictive.

29. November 2011
It's not about just looking good: "Design for Developers" (and journalists, too). Cool slideshare presentation.

21. Oktober 2011
HTML5 Reading List. Not just for web developers. Because this is where we are heading.

21. Oktober 2011
UX Design and Mobile Experience? This is helpful: Organizing Mobile, by Luke Wroblewsk

21. September 2011
Make sure your content looks the same in each browser: A dozen testing tools, reviewed by Smashing Magazine

12. August 2011
PixelPing: Developed by Pro Publica. It's a statistical tool to track usage of content, even via embeds on other sites.

12. August 2011
RGraph: A Javascript charts and graph library. By using the HTML5 canvas tag, you can now create attractive visuals of data.

31. Juli 2011
HTML 5 is coming, fast: Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies, via Smashing Magazine

31. Juli 2011
Makes you want to start a new website: Best Free WordPress Themes, 2011 Edition, via Smashing Magazine

29. Juli 2011
Bring A Trailer: They help you to find good classic cars. Combines concepts of curation, editorial and trust. Makes money.

19. Juli 2011
Devour: Curated online video, magazine style. A mix of television, web and glossy "print magazine"

08. Juli 2011
GOOD Magazine: Love the infographics (and other sections).

26. Juni 2011
Tweet late, email early: How to be more effective in social communication (based on two year data mining)

24. Juni 2011
Can information be architected? A presentation from Oliver Reichenstein (Euro IA 2010). Great presentation.

17. Juni 2011
Bit.ly has made it's pro-features available to all users. Means: You can create a cool shor.lnk yourself (via TechCrunch).

07. Juni 2011
Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad - using paper mock-ups (via Omni Group)

05. Juni 2011
HTML5 resource guide: A long list pointing out tutorials, frameworks to play around with.

04. Juni 2011
Jumpchart: A platform to plan websites, with wireframes, sorting content.

13. Mai 2011
How do people navigate through news sites? Detailed study from PEW Research Center, free download.

08. April 2011
Visual.ly is a new "hub" to connect makers of infographics with a larger public. Interesting video provides an overview.

23. März 2011
Interesting for journalists: Infinite webpages, here are 15 examples (via Inspired Mag)

10. Februar 2011
The website for VISION Cloud, an EU project I am working in most of my time, is online since January 2011. Uses Fullstory CMS.

10. Februar 2011
Cool cars: I used one of the templates from Graphpaperpress to built this for a friend of mine: Hammer Performance.

08. Dezember 2010
Looking for a fresh look for your blog or web project? Try Themeforest: 3.000 Weblayouts for WordPress, HTML.

06. Dezember 2010
I find it very inspiring to look at nice architecture online. Here is a good one: "Office snapshots", makes you want to work for a web agency.

19. November 2010
Can a website change the world? Probably not. Can a good idea change the world? Probably yes, if it is as good as Cola Life.

28. Oktober 2010
Internet Statistics: TNS Digital Life provides a country by country overview, interesting Flash layout.

04. Oktober 2010
Important question: How much money is earned by some of the bigger blogs? Some seem to make good money, if the numbers here are true.

22. September 2010
BBC Dimensions compares sizes and regions that you know with sizes and regions that you should know about.

12. September 2010
"Information is beautiful" provides a fresh look at big issues, based on data analysis. It helps you to see patterns more clearly.

25. August 2010
"Freunde von Freunden" translates into "Friends of Friends". The site let's you peek into other peoples homes. Great sense of style.

03. August 2010
Curbed has become the "most-trafficked neighborhood and real-estate weblog on the web".

03. August 2010
When developing a new website, going to Siteinspire is a good idea: A database allows to browse prime examples of good design.

18. Juli 2010
Monocle connects a print magazine with a good website. Not a site to check day by day, but you'll find something surprising each month.

13. Juli 2010
Aggregated news, easy to check. Techmeme is usually the first website I go to in the morning.

11. November 2011
The incredible visual artistry of Drea Cooper, Director (who did "California is a place"). This links to his website.

12. August 2011
Toni Hirst is a one man research organization: Exploring data, asking questions, helping others.

10. August 2011
Brian Boyer, hacker journalist. Works on apps for journalists and newsrooms.

19. Juli 2011
Amanda Cox now has a Tumblr blog, where you find here awesome projects.

09. Juni 2011
Catherine Mulbrandon, Visualizing Economics: Look at her project about "Income in the United States".

09. Juni 2011
Sarah Cohen, a prize-winning journalist, Duke's Knight Professor and director of the Reporter's Lab.

04. März 2011
Presentation: Fast, funny, furious - Paul Bradshaw's Inaugural lecture, City University

04. März 2011
Jay Rosen on bloggers vs. journalists: Mostly a psychological thing. Will be a talk on SXSW in Austin in 2011. Just booked my flight.

10. Februar 2011
Smart, energetic, nice guy: Data-Journalist Nicolas Kayser-Bril. See this: A day as a datajournalist at OWNI, on Prezi.

18. Dezember 2010
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Why the web format has contaminated online journalism

06. Dezember 2010
How the New York Times works with data & graphics: 1 hour presentation by Amanda Cox, at New Media Days 2010

30. September 2010
Aron Pilhofer, head of interactive projects at the New York Times. Click here to download training material for Django and Rails.

13. September 2010
Adam Westbrook, multimedia storyteller. And: A good thinker and trainer on the future of journalism.

25. August 2010
Nat Torkington publishes just "Four short links". And almost every day I wonder where he found all these nuggets.

25. August 2010
Simon Rogers is the editor of the Guardian Datablog. He uses data for reporting and it consistently looks so elegant and so right.

25. August 2010
Brian Storm, mediastorm.com: I think that what he does is inspiring and important.

10. August 2010
Musician, web developer, innovator. Adrian Holovaty has contributed big time to journalism already.

12. Juli 2010
Mindy McAdams wrote the "Reporters Guide to Multimedia Profiency". If you look for an overview, download the free PDF.

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