Tag Archives: data

Here’s what I want from news orgs

By Julie Starr | Published: May 29, 2010

A conversation this week got my brain fizzing again about news. (Nice to fizz rather than funk). The conversation ranged through what is perceived to be wrong with the news business, what’s right about it, what impact it’s having on society, what journalism graduates need to know, who journalists need to be. The usual stuff. [...]

Posted in Journalism, Newspapers | Also tagged accountability, jouralism, news, source tagging, sources | 13 Comments

Data, labels and the power of microformats

By Julie Starr | Published: September 6, 2009

Somehow a week’s slipped by since the Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest in Wellington without me giving an update here. It was a great event with around 150 people putting their heads together on the Saturday to brainstorm the why, where, who and how of making more government data readily available to the public [...]

Posted in Journalism, Tools for Journalists | Also tagged AP, Media Standards Trust, semantic web | Leave a comment

Why I’m sponsoring Open Govt Data Bar Camp

By Julie Starr | Published: August 23, 2009

First of all, what’s Open Govt Data Bar Camp? “The New Zealand Open Government Bar Camp is an “unconference” for people who are interested in making government-held data more freely available for others to re-use. An “unconference” is an alternative participant-driven event, that avoids aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored [...]

Posted in Crowdsourcing, Journalism | Also tagged everyblock.com, open government | Leave a comment

MSNBC acquires everyblock.com

By Julie Starr | Published: August 23, 2009

Everyblock.com announced this week that it has been acquired by news organisation MSNBC.com. Everyblock.com takes data from local government, libraries, police, emergency services and many more sources and ‘arranges it’ geographically so that visitors to the website can get a picture of what’s happening on their street. They can see figures for house listings, crime, [...]

Posted in Business Models, Journalism | Also tagged microlocal, source code | Leave a comment