Year: 2012
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Archive of My NYT Anonymity Because Clause Tweets
From April 2 – September 24, 2007, I used my Twitter account (@juggernautco) exclusively to publish all of the “because clauses” in articles from the New York Times that contained information from anonymous sources. Here’s a fun list of those tweets. because the report will be issued this morning Mon Sep 24 22:28:33 +0000 2007…
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Toward a Generic Context Engine for Civic Data
I have been thinking and writing for quite some time about how to use civic data— the type of info found on data portals like data.cityofchicago.org— to tell real stories. That’s why I’m psyched to be attending two events— Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday and the MIT – Knight Civic Media Conference, where I’ll…
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Stitching Together Disparate Building Info To Tell Compelling Stories
If written about creating a generic context engine for civic data, and also delved into the fact that private data is critical to understanding the world around us. in prep for the Knight-Mozilla-MIT “Story & Algorithm” Hack Day on Saturday, I wanted to lay out some specific manifestations of a general method developers could use to tell…
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Mr. Imagination is Dead, Long Live Mr. Imagination
It is a sad day for Chicago art. Today learned today that the great Chicago artist, Mr. Imagination, has died. Photo via Yada Dada I got to know Mr. Imagination in the early to mid 90s when he lived in an apartment at Clark and Sheffield. He had a regal bearing and a gentle intelligence…
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The FCC “Political File” Ruling and Price Transparency
Last week the Federal Communications Commission ruled that stations affiliated with the top four national networks (ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox) and serve the top 50 markets must post “political file documents” online. All stations— regardless of size— already have to maintain such files and make them available to the public. Stations balked at this…