Over the past few months I’ve been trying to learn D3.js, the extremely powerful Javascript visualisation library. As a relative newcomer to Javascript (some background in PHP) D3.js has been a challenge. I first started trying to learn D3.js in April 2014 but gave up
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Media Picks #11 – Digital storytelling, web versus apps, making economics fun
Media Picks #11 – 27 February 2015
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New York Times to double the number of stories open for comment on its
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Media Picks #10 – Immersive stories, the algorithms are coming & don’t post Facebook pictures
Media Picks #10 – 20 February 2015
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The company automating stories for AP now has its sights set on sports journalism
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Media Picks #9 – No home pages, the end of Twitter buttons, FTW!
Media Picks #9 – 13 February 2015
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The news site with no site: NowThis drops website, goes all-in on social
NowThis, which was
Media Picks #8 – Killing comments, the real value of paywalls and tips from the experts
Media Picks #8 – 6 February 2015
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It’s Friday, so why don’t we start this week’s email newsletter with a
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Media Picks #7 – Automated news, fixing news hyperlinks and radical designs
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Robot journalism: AP’s automated company reports are giving journalists more time to pursue other stories
“Like all media, we are working with
Media Picks #6 – Integrated newsrooms, recycling news, and latte art with a journalism angle
Media Picks #6 – 23 January 2015
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In case you’re ever on the other side of the table, this is what you can
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Media Picks #5 – Smart journalism, crowdfunding, online video and data journalism
Media Picks #5 – 16 January 2015
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Smart move: Australian news site forges new media model by partnering with academics
Australian site The
Media Picks #4 – Lean journalism, cooking up an app storm, suggestive headlines
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For many of us the new year is the traditional time to be re-evaluating lives, making resolutions and planning for the year ahead. So, if
(New) Adventures in Ubuntu
There was a time I was a Linux and free software evangelist. Over the past few years, however, work and life have conspired to make me a Windows user, albeit a reluctant one.
A few weeks ago I bought a new cheapie laptop (an Acer