incontro italiano di Hacks/Hackers a Bologna ... giulirocco ... 
John Paton, amministratore delegato di Digital First Media, la seconda impresa d’informazione negli Stati Uniti con 10mila addetti, un fatturato di 1.400 milioni di dollari e 57 milioni di clienti sviluppato con 800 prodotti editoriali tra carta e... 
If you read things on the Internet, like The Next Web, you’ve probably seen an infographic. The art of the infographic depends on how what data is being presented, how cleanly, and how attractively. A well-done infographic is more interesting than a text-only post of data.
The only problem with this type of content is that it’s extremely difficult to do if you don’t have a staff of designers and statisticians. Managing the data, creating a layout, testing the design, and getting sign-off on an infographic before it goes live is a long and frustrating process. One company, Infogr.am, wants to make the infographic creation process an easy one that anyone can do. I think they’ve done their job, as their application is absolutely awesome. 
Video Luca Nicotra di Agorà digitale su Data Journalism 
Publish beautiful fullscreen websites that feature your maps fast and for free
After you’ve designed your custom styles for MapBox Streets and have some data overlays, whether from a TileMill layer or data from an API, the next step is getting your maps online. We’re releasing two Map Site templates to help jumpstart the process of building fast and beautiful fullscreen map visualization...http://mapbox.com/blog/new-map-site-templates/ 
Aggregation has become a dirty word in much of journalism today. 
Tech companies continue to reach beyond conventional media to get their messages out. Intel on Wednesday launched its latest experiment, a kind of new-wave news aggregator called iQ that is aimed at informing a younger audience. 
Ultimamente ho incontrato diverse persone che mi hanno chiesto “ma tu che strumento usi per estrarre e analizzare i dati?” e a tutti ho dato una risposta che forse li ha un po’ spiazzati per la sua banalità. 
Nearly 30 percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a recent survey from Schools.com, which found that, among them, 59.5 percent of respondents get their news from Facebook, compared with 19.9 percent from Twitter, 12.7 percent from YouTube, and 11.6 percent from Google Plus.
continue to read...http://allfacebook.com/schools-com-news-infographic_b88794 
This electronics site's Apple rumors consistently make news -- but are wrong far more often than they're right. Why does everyone continue to take them seriously? 
Standing for journalism, strengthening democracy | Journalism training, media news & how to's...
Geofeedia, a service that comes out of private beta today, aims to solve this problem by enabling location-based searches for social media content. Users can type in a place name, address, even the name of a sports venue, or they can simply outline an area on a map. The service will display the latest geotagged content — from Twitter, Instagram, Picasa, Flickr and YouTube — within that area. complete article...http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/173764/geofeedia-helps-journalists-locate-real-time-photos-tweets-where-news-breaks/ 
"Requesting politely to stay in the dark will not serve journalism." Google's @richardgingras: http://t.co/GDNguNRF. Via @jimbradysp... 
The Atlantic Media Company is hardly new to publishing. Its history stretches to 1857, but for an old guy it’s proven to have some serious digital moves. Its outlets — The Atlantic, The National Journal and Government Executive — have aggressively transformed it into a digital company. Now, the company is trying to prove that it can build a global brand from scratch. Four years ago, its traditional-to-digital-audience metrics were at a one-to-one basis, meaning for every traditional reader there was a digital one, according to Justin Smith, president of the Atlantic Media Company. Now, he says, on average, its digital audience is 25 times higher than the print audience. According to ComScore, The Atlantic got 3.6 million uniques in April 2012. On the advertising side, more than 50 percent of its revenue will come from digital. “Our history is in traditional print media,” said Smith. “What we set out to do was to disrupt ourselves in a sense. We decided that we wanted to be a digital media company participating in the high-growth markets and digital media. We went about the process of thinking through the questions, how do we disrupt our own company if we were challenging digital brands attacking us?”
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Il Guardian, una delle testate che ha affrontato con più maturità e successo la sfida del linguaggio digitale, ha dedicato un articolo a una ricerca italiana nel campo del Giornalismo dei dati. 
Sono passati quarant’anni da quando Internet è stata sviluppata e venti da quando il web è stato messo online. I nuovi media non sono nemmeno più così nuovi. Ma troppa della nostra energia nel giornalismo si è concentrata sui nuovi modi per offrire idee vecchie, invece che sui nuovi approcci per fornire ciò di cui oggi la gente ha realmente bisogno. È una frase che sintetizza alla perfezione molto del dibattito che in questi ultimi anni si sta sviluppando intorno al futuro dell’informazione, la giornalista americana Melanie Sill – che della frase citata è l’autrice – l’ha messa un po’ di mesi fa in uno di una serie di interessantissimi articoli e interventi dedicati al giornalismo “aperto”: The case for open journalism now. Una considerazione sostenuta da molti che potrebbe apparire addirittura scontata nella sue evidenza. La pratica però ci dice quanto sia ancora disatteso il passaggio verso quei nuovi approcci che la Sill, e molti altri, si auspicano. 
A new survey found that more than half of media professionals polled immediately leave a website after encountering a paywall. One-quarter said they were unlikely to return to the site, and 63 percent said that they expect to see no ads after crossing over a paywall...contine to read http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/174426/survey-52-of-media-professionals-abandon-websites-when-they-hit-a-paywall/ 
Editor's note: "A self-described media junkie, China nerd and geek mom -- Kristie Lu Stout is also an anchor/correspondent for CNN International. Join her on News Stream, each weekday at 8 p.m. Hong Kong time, noon London, 8 a.m. New York."
Now that Facebook is friends with Wall Street, this journalist is giving her timeline a rethink...http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/17/tech/facebook-journalists-stout/index.html 
In a video of his recent talk at the Nieman Foundation, Gingras shares his thoughts on how newspapers can rethink their approach to distribution, work flows and innovation. 
6 bugie, falsi miti e racconti di fate su Twitter e il giornalismo - 6 bugie, falsi miti e racconti di fate su Twitter e il giornalismogranieri.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.itSi parla molto, specie in questi ultimi mesi, dei rapporti tra Twitter... 
New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events,...
Social networks like Twitter and web communities like Reddit often get criticized for being the source of nefarious rumors and false news reports, including the deaths of innumerable celebrities who are very much alive. But just as fakes and hoaxes can spread more widely and efficiently through the web than they can in print or other forms of media, they can be debunked more quickly as well. The story of how Reddit members fact-checked some fake Wikipedia entries is a great example of this in action, and journalism professor Alfred Hermida also points out in an interview with the Poynter Institute that Twitter and other social tools have crucial roles to play in the future of digital journalism.
http://gigaom.com/2012/05/16/twitter-and-reddit-as-crowdsourced-fact-checking-engines/ 
The Canadian Journalism Project / Observatoire du journalisme (New tool for #socialmedia verification carries heavy price tag - is it worth it?
With all of the documented strengths that social media can bring to a journalist’s reporting, one large obstacle often remains: verification. It isn’t difficult for a topic to start trending on Twitter and when it gets into the right (or wrong) hands it can spread like wildfire. (Take Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 2010 “death” for example. It started with a tweet in Ottawa that the singer had died and within minutes the news was broadcast across the country. Lightfoot heard the news over the radio on his way to the dentist.) A new service, Geofeedia (previously Geofeedr) launched its new interface today. It aims to aid journalists when reporting breaking news by allowing them to monitor geographical areas or to identify an area of interest. It displays geotagged content from the areas from social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr and Picasa. The idea is that by quickly locating the content, journalists can verify information, and find photos and interview sources for breaking news stories. continue to read...http://j-source.ca/article/new-tool-social-media-verification-carries-heavy-price-tag 
Automated #infographics with easel.ly http://t.co/gKZB7MFB via flowingdata #dataviz #tools... 
We round up the best comments, questions and answers from our recent live chat on tomorrow's journalist – what tools and skills will they need to survive and thrive? continua to read...http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/may/02/journalism-future-top-tips-career 
A set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words began as an experimental lab, but now appear on Forbes.com...
Stories generated by Narrative Science will not be winning many Pulitzers, but will past the Turing test of making one unsure whether they are written by person or machine. Photograph: Alamy
Visit the website of Forbes.com and read the earnings forecasts for the New York Times Company, and you will notice the byline "By Narrative Science". Normally you have to open a copy of Wallpaper* to find someone with such a florid monicker. Except of course Narrative Science is not a person but a robot journalist – actually a set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words. What started as an experimental lab at Northwestern University with journalists and technologists working together is now a fully-fledged business that turns data into stories of a type which will not be winning many Pulitzers, but which certainly pass the Turing test of making one unsure whether they were written by a person or machine. The lovable "stats monkey", which came from the same series of research experiments, does the same for sports stories, without the attendant vet bills, bananas and spelling errors associated with employing a real monkey.
continue to read...http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/13/robot-journalist-apocalypse-news-industry 
All media outlets have embraced data journalism and either have infographic designers on staff, in-residence or have hired infographic design companies to create newsy infographics for them. Why? It’s the ease of understanding, baby! Just because we are in the Age of Information does not mean that we are able to process all of the information we receive everyday; be it from television, print, online, mobile, etc. Our cars are even talking to us these days. These things that have been created to make our lives easier have made it so much more complex. The world has become a very small place. Globalization is as much as a consciousness of people and events around the world as it is corporate movement. The first time I watched Headline News’ “Around The World in 30 Minutes” in the late 80s, I felt depressed. Not major lie-in-bed-all-day depression, but the mild depression that comes from feeling overwhelmed by too much information. The modern buzz phrase for this feeling is “drinking from the fire hose” — being forced to take in more than is humanly possible. My antidote to this feeling was to emotionally detach from the stories. Watching a news snippet like “scientists say new infection could potentially wipe-out human race … back in a minute” and then cut to an innocuous cheesy commercial made me feel emotionally confused and ambivalent. For self-preservation, I learned to tune it out. continue to read...http://www.infoglyphs.com/a-new-telling-mainstream-acceptance-of-data-journalism/
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