Archive for 'information'
Usable Transparency
The NYT has recently been doing a lot of interactive pieces for the 2008 presidential election. One of these is an interactive chart presentation of different political polls done by different organizations. This isn’t quite game-y, though it could be if there were some additional features like being able to compare one poll to another, [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2008 under games, information, journalism, transparency.
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NYT Interactive Presidential Debates
The New York Times recently published an interactive application for exploring the video and transcripts from the presidential and vice-presidential debates. Actual debate content aside, the application is quite a usable foray into the realm of multimedia (video + transcript) interfaces. Seen here is a screen shot of the application from the 2nd presidential debate.
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Posted: October 12th, 2008 under information, interaction, interfaces, video, video interfaces.
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The Journalism of Awareness
In The Elements of Journalism Kovach and Rosenstiel call it the “Awareness Instinct,” that basic human drive to know something about what’s going on beyond our direct experience. Sure, the gold standard for journalists is to give people the information they need to make the decisions that are important to themselves, their families, and their [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2008 under computational journalism, consumption, games, information.
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Information Quality and Intentionality
My friend Kelly had some questions for me after my proposal last month and I’m finally getting around to thinking about some of them. One question that she had was about how a lot of low quality information (e.g. press releases, advertisements etc.) is not accidentally of low quality, but is rather intentionally biased to [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under information, information quality.
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