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Greg Hadfield, quoted by Sarah Marshall on journalism.co.uk [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/12/02/how-open-data-has-changed-journalism/] : > An open-data tsunami will mean that more journalism will be about interpreting – and putting into context – data that is open to all, at least in its rawest, unrefined form. To
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If Tuesday’s Mobile Strategies Conference was unchallenging [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/06/mobile_media_strategies_-_early_thoughts.html] at times, Monday night’s Hacks/Hackers London event [http://meetuplondon.hackshackers.com/events/19792711/] was the exact opposite – brain-bending and stretching even for those of us on
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David Rowan [http://www.twitter.com/irowan] tried to build a compelling case for gathering and sharing data about yourself, because it can benefit both yourself and society. One example: Patients like me [http://www.patientslikeme.com/]. It’s a site where people are sharing response to treatments for 500
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Martin Deinoff and Frederick Marcus gave what has to be the most strange presentation I’ve seen at NEXT. The talk was nominally about making data central to product design. You should bake technology into the product to make it better, they suggested. And there are several layers of data:
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Kristine compares the media environment around iPad subs [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2011/05/apple-and-publishers-a-faustian-bargain.html] with the theories of the last decade: > It made me wonder how customers feel about the prospect of being co-owned by Hearst and Apple. I understand the business sense behind that
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Well, now, this is interesting, isn’t it? > Although the idea of giving iPad owners a choice of whether or not to divulge their name, email and zipcode sent chills through some publishers, a report finds nearly 50 percent of people click the “allow” button. For some time, Apple
conferences
[http://www.nextconf.eu/next11/?cid=Banner_Register_Fullsize_rec] I have been invited to be an official blogger at this month’s Next Conference, in Berlin [http://nextconf.eu/next11/]. And given the subject – Data Love [http://nextconf.eu/next11/next11-means-data-love/] – how could I possibly refuse? Data is a
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These are all over the blogosphere today, but they’re interesting, so why not join in? 🙂 The image is a visualisation of my LinkedIn Network [http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/share/Adam_Tinworth/226901027576898190314301653605711426243] , showing the people I’m connected to, and the relationships between themselves. I’m fascinated by how
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 Blimey – it’s the PRS [http://www.prsformusic.com/creators/news/research/Pages/default.aspx]! Traditional music industry guy talking at a conference full of internet types.
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David McCandless – Information is Beautiful Oh, look. David McCandless. I’be blogged his talks once [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/10/media140_information_is_beautiful.html] or twice [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/09/science_online_cultures_clash_over_infog.html] recently. He’s kicking off with his
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(Live-blogging – prone to error, omission and typos…) Rufus Pollock from Open Knowledge Foundation Wouldn’t it be nice to know where our money goes when we pay taxes? You need lots of stuff – government spending (local and regional), region codes, company data… Much of it locked up or in difficult
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Great presentation by Tom Coates [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coates] to kick off the final session of the day, unless you’re a semantic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web] web fan, in which case it was heresy and the root of all evil in the world.
