Written by amedeo on January 25th, 2008
EveryBlock, from ChicagoCrime.org’s Adrian Holovaty and crew, fishes local info ponds and databases to create a new standard for the required depth of neighborhood news/information aggregation providers.
Why I like it
Making raw data made much more accessible is good journalism.
It finds and beautifully displays info from government reports (good source material for deeper stories), an aspect [...]
Written by amedeo on January 8th, 2008
Tell Idio your musical likes, and it builds your personal music magazine.
The results don’t excite me as much as the method: Drop in a bit of info about yourself, and out spits media matching (well, trying to match) your interests.
It toys with the concept of information finding us and adds a touch of design and [...]
Written by amedeo on November 29th, 2007
With some creative use of your Web cam, Seesmic might provide another means of quick info updates from breaking-news scenes. Webware reviewed it.
Here’s a part of the service’s description that indicates the Web is becoming your Web site, my favorite song:
Users can link their Seesmic account to a Twitter account, if they have one, and [...]
Written by amedeo on November 7th, 2007
You’ll need the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in to get Tafiti to work, but it’s worth the effort.
Tafiti presents news search results with a headline and layout that makes them look like a custom newspaper. It hammers home the point that the Web is your Web site, and search is your navigation. The feed search impresses, too.
Tafiti [...]
Written by amedeo on October 30th, 2007
A remixed quote of a quote from Jeff Huber, Google’s vice pres. of engineering (via TechCrunch):
What we see is applications customer attention fundamentally changing. Just like the model for content changed from monolithic news sites trying to trap customer attention, now applications are attention is going to be feeds and containers.
A lot that you have [...]
Written by amedeo on October 27th, 2007
The more social networking sites that spring up, and the more that sites enable contributions from their audiences (news outlets accepting comments, for example), the more I wonder how to publish a successful network instead of a single site.
The challenges/solutions to creating a network publication, which I define as your content published on sites hosted [...]
Written by amedeo on October 24th, 2007
Click2Map, though it costs a bit to get the more advanced features, may end my hunt for the perfect map-making service (here’s my test map).
Yes, personalized Google maps are free, but can they do all of
this:
RSS feed of updates to map. Oh, my. My. Drool. What we have here are the beginnings of a mlog [...]
