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[The Transparency Register] provides citizens with a direct and single access to information about who is engaged in activities aiming at influencing the EU decision making process, which interests are being pursued and what level of resources are invested in these activities.
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China struggles to tame microblogging masses – Gadgets & Tech, Life & Style – The Independent: "This is where pu… http://t.co/A3nWUKQ
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"This is where public opinion is being formed," said Peking University journalism professor Hu Yong. Hu said the decision by authorities in the booming east coast city of Dalian to relocate a controversial chemical plant owed much to a largely middle class public protest one Sunday in August that had its origins in weibo posts. "The Dalian party secretary came out and gave a speech promising to shut the chemical plant," he said. "We seldom see this. This is significant."
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London’s local media left cold by Olympic press allocations http://j.mp/oXUhyf
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Such data has always been valuable. However, the internet revolution is transforming it into a cashable proposition. The online genealogy market grew from nothing to millions a year, thanks to the availability of family records online. The worldwide satnav market, based on free data from the US government’s GPS system, is worth well over $100bn year, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Freedom of Information requests are slow, tedious, and as a means of gathering information roughly equal in efficiency to the game Battleships. You fire off a formal request, wait a month for a reply telling you your request was rubbish and off-target, move two squares to the left and fire again, and repeat until you get what you were after, or you've given up, or you've died of old age. Apply this to research data and there's a good chance that even if it's available it may be unintelligible, or in a proprietary format, or undocumented.
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There's a unique anti-business attitude in Europe in relation to FoI. Prof James Boyle of Duke University Law School told me: "European attitudes towards private commercialisation actually work against the idea of openness. In the US if the government hands out weather data for free and people make a ton of money off the back of it, everyone says, 'Great! it's good for the economy, good for us, good for the company' … In Britain there's a sense that the company has got something for free and now they're making money out of it. 'How terrible! They're free-riding.' They don't see the overall economic benefit that comes from sharing information."
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We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source software they had acquired.
The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and they've varied from detailed accounts of software and expenditure, to refusals to provide any information on the grounds that it would cost too much. -
In June the commissioner’s office said the university’s reason for refusing to hand over the information, because the request was considered “vexatious”, was not a correct reason and ordered it to issue another response.
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A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice found that in 2005, 1,363 people were convicted while in 2010, it was 2,135.
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RT @kwesth: Fine collection of data gathering and data processing tools for social media http://t.co/lLaBvmN #foj11
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BBC News – Victory for Cliff's law: What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findi… http://t.co/wNOas7L
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What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findings of the Hargreaves Review on copyright.
Its central message was that the copyright regime should be tidied up, and enforced where possible, but that its reach should not be extended.
All those music industry bodies which have campaigned so long for this are keeping their powder dry tonight, waiting for the Council of Ministers to rubber-stamp the decision before they say anything. -
According to the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center’s report “Egypt from Tahrir to Transition,” the uprisings in Egypt were “not a Facebook revolution.” While media sources have widely credited online activists for igniting the recent uprisings, the report concludes that the role of social media as a key factor in mobilizing millions is likely overstated. According to the center’s research, based on a nationally representative survey of about 1,000 respondents in Egypt, only 8 percent said that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get news on the protests. Some 81 percent named Egyptian state TV as their source for news, 63 percent named Al Jazeera.
Fadi Salem of the Dubai School of Government is equally convinced that regional satellite television had an “influential role” in toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. He doubts, however, that television would have been equally influential without videos from YouTube and information from Twitter and Facebook.
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Photo: How big is your New Optimism? This big apparently. (via Egypt From Tahrir to Transition) http://t.co/Ok0N2j6
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The BBC is radically rewriting its approach to the digital world, trimming down its sprawling network of websites to 10 streamlined 'products', an umbrella term which includes everything from BBC radio to the iPlayer. Responsible for Homepage, Search, News, Sport, Weather, CBBC, CBeebies, Knowledge and Learning and 2012 Olympics coverage, Phil Fearnley explains how the BBC is reaching out to audiences across different platforms under its new approach.
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Olapic has a Facebook Application that lets media organizations show photos uploaded by their Facebook community to crowdsourced galleries. Going to use this as an example for my class this fall as a useful tool.
This makes crowdsourcing using your Facebook Pages much easier. Here's the link to the app: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=168450899839635 Also, here's an example of what it looks like on New York Daily News: http://on.fb.me/qit75o
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Faveous is a fairly new entrant into the field, and is very like Trunkly, but the choice is slightly wider in my opinion. Sources are very similar, but you can also filter by all media, images, videos, music and documents. One particularly nice feature is the ability to save your Twitter favourites as well however; it can also delete them afterwards if you wish. There's little to choose between both systems, but since it only takes a few moments to set up, why not use both?
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Did you see downloading and reading newspapers and magazines in there at number five? So only slightly more than half of the people who regularly use the internet read online news publications of some description in the last three months.
To put this in context, 57 percent of internet users and 91 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds used social networking sites in the same period. The people who are soon going to be your ad manager’s target audience already spend more time talking to friends and sharing photographs then perhaps they ever will reading newspapers or magazines online. -
Photo: (via Why it’s dangerous to over-estimate how digital your audience is | TheMediaBriefing) http://t.co/sowqeqX
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Cable Reveals Extent Of Lapdoggery From Swedish Govt On Copyright Monopoly – Falkvinge on InfopolicySince the 1980s, the US has aggressively threatened trade sanctions against countries who don’t give American companies sufficiently large competitive advantages — this is described in detail in the book Information Feudalism about the origins of the TRIPs agreement and WTO, for those interested in gory details. In practice, it works like this: industry associations in the US go to the Trade Representatives, who go to the myriad offices dealing with Foreign Policy, who go to the embassies, who talk to national governments (including the Swedish one) and demand changes to national law to benefit American corporations.
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Video: Tips on investigating people and businesses http://t.co/3i4LGiQ
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With this, HuffPost joins a surge of news organizations that are tapping into their staff expertise and troves of published material for relatively quick and inexpensive e-books. A few examples:
The Boston Globe released a trio on the life of fugitive gangster Whitey Bulger.
The New Yorker recently collected post-9/11 articles for its first e-book.
The New York Times assembled an e-book on WikiLeaks called “Open Secrets.”A People’s History of the Great Recession tells personal stories of economic hardship brought on by the recession.
The fact that The Huffington Post is among these pioneers in repurposing its content for e-books is especially significant for the organization’s reputation, Delaney told me. “It shows that Huffington Post is doing real reporting. People always say, ‘It’s aggregation and unpaid bloggers,’ but it’s not. It’s more than that.” -
"State Governor Jay Nixon recently signed Senate Bill 54, making it illegal for students and teachers to be friends online as of later this month. Now, a Missouri teachers group is fighting the state's new law that prohibits them from being Facebook friends with their students by filing a lawsuit. From the article: 'The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed a lawsuit on Friday, challenging a new law. MSTA is specifically asking the Circuit Court of Cole County to determine the constitutionality of the law’s social media portion.'"
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An inquiry by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is examining "alleged corruption and abuse of power" in police relationships with the media, while Elizabeth Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, intends to draw up a framework for how police officers handle their relationships with reporters.
The inquiries are both considering whether communication between police officers should be officially monitored and recorded by a press officer.
Three years ago, a case against Sally Murrer, a reporter on the Milton Keynes Citizen, and a former Thames Valley police detective Mark Kearney was thrown out. Kearney had been accused of leaking information to her.
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RT @saulcozens: OSS Sentiment Analysis front-end for R http://t.co/perC0IP – must read more /ht @monkchips @philsheard
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Photo: You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention? (via… http://t.co/7RunTCj
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One of the best features in ArtBabble is that each section (Series, Channel, Artist) has its own RSS feed, so you can subscribe to video content in a very granular way. It also features all of the usual social touches, such as ratings, comments and tag clouds. ArtBabble is an elegantly designed site with a lot of compelling content in it. Perhaps the biggest lesson here for other organizations is that the video content on ArtBabble comes from dozens of art museums, so it is varied and regularly updated. It's not always possible to collaborate with others on content, but for a social site it's always a plus.
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The first is a database of more than 1,100 defendants who have appeared in court charged with riot-related offences. The list, compiled with the assistance of the Ministry of Justice, consists of more than 70% of those who have appeared in magistrate and crown courts. Many will be given the opportunity to take part in the research study in the coming weeks. The second database contains 2.5m riot-related tweets. Executives at Twitter's headquarters in California authorised the collation of tweets, pooled from hashtags relating to the riots and their aftermath, so they could form part of the study. A spokeman for the company said: "Twitter provided publicly available information that is accessible to researchers and others via its API."
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“CMS – the software UX forgot” – Karen McGrane at Content Strategy Forum 2011: If you were an eCommerce operatio… http://t.co/k63jI8i
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If you were an eCommerce operation, you would be rigorously trying to remove the obstacles to conversion on the front-end of your website, because that makes you money. So if you you are a content creation business, why wouldn’t you apply the same methodology to your workflow, and eliminate the points of pain that introduce inefficiency in your business? Usability isn’t about fonts, she said, it is about workflow
We’ve done a poor job, she said, of convincing people of the real benefits of structured content over bespoke digital layout. She compared Condé Nast, who have tripled their workload by needing one print and two bespoke iPad layouts of every article, to NPR who have built an API that makes “Create once, publish everywhere” a reality. A graph she showed of the sales of Glamour suggested that investment in bespoke layouts was sometimes selling less than 3,000 copies of an app – a shockingly poor return on investment. -
National Readership statistics, based on a rolling programme of 36,000 interviews every year, add a lot more bells and whistles, including breakdowns between male and female readers. And if there's one area of readership that has come to define resilience and, in some cases, even growth, then it's the challenge of recruiting women.
Look at the Mail on Sunday's You magazine in the latest July 2010 to June 2011 release: 2,202,000 women against 1,561,000 men. These are vital counterweights to all that Premiership football, the preserve of young men, or family money pull-outs which men dominate 3:2. Look at the Sunday Telegraph's Stella, with 534,000 women to 323,000 men in a paper where men dominate by more than 50,000, or the Guardian Weekend, 623,000 women to 529,000 men. Look, for that matter, at Observer readership – 605,000 men and 535,000 women overall, but a far narrower 466,000 men against 460,000 women in magazine terms – and 544,000 women to 424,000 men on Food Monthly days. -
First and foremost, the concept of an “editor” at TechCrunch is essentially just a title and nothing more. Generally speaking, neither Mike nor Erick (TC’s two “co-editors”) are overlords that dictate what everyone else covers. With a few exceptions (mainly for newer writers), no one person even reads posts by any other author before they are posted. Traditional journalists may be appalled to learn this. But this is a big key of why TechCrunch kicks their ass in tech coverage. We’re fast and furious in ways they can’t be, because they’re adhering to the old rules. Are there benefits to those old rules? Sure. But in my opinion, the benefits of the way we work far outweighs the benefits of the way they work.
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Infographic: gathering data: a flow chart for data journalists http://t.co/hGoIFcr
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A daily chronicle of Internet,mobile and tablet publishingnews, information andopinion.
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Video: I wasted many hours playing this: The Boss (by UlvYngling) http://t.co/Tt1Muxv
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Nominet, the registrar that handles .uk domains, is moving ahead with proposed rules (PDF) that could allow law enforcement agencies to request a domain be shut down without a court order.The registrar launched the process in response to a request from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Currently Nominet’s rules don’t allow for domains to be shut down for criminal reasons, though in the past it has blocked domains at the request of law enforcement agencies on the pretext that they provided false contact details.Limited applicationSuspension of a domain will not require a court order but should be limited to circumstances where necessary “to prevent serious and immediate consumer harm”, according to Nominet.
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Gerardo Buganza, the interior secretary for Veracruz state in Mexico, said it could very well be the “Twitter terrorism” caused by two people who allegedly spread false reports of gunmen attacking schools and kidnapping children. Those reports caused such panic when parents scrambled around the city to get to their children that there were dozens of car accidents and emergency phone lines were jammed.The two people, a private school teacher and a radio presenter, now face 30 years in prison for charges under terrorism laws.
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Local Government Lawyer: news, views, analysis, jobs and events covering legal practice in local government and the wider public sector.
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RT @LocGovLawyer When can an authority refuse under Environmental Information Regulations to disclose legal advice http://t.co/d8Kk1BA #eir
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RT @silviacobo: Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment #media http://j.mp/qDPbHk
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Data journalism bootcamp (SQL) with David Donald http://t.co/6DCkb0u
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I couldn’t contain myself (other more pressing things to do, but…), so I just took a quick time out and a coffee to put together a quick and dirty R function that will let me run queries over Google spreadsheet data sources and essentially treat them as database tables (e.g. Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the Google Visualisation API Query Language).
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Incredible situation where EU citizens are not allowed to know what position their governments are adopting re:… http://t.co/aSzTXXw
The EU is reforming its rules on access to documents and Access Info wanted to know what position each government was taking on the reform. We asked the Council of the EU on 3 December 2008, and it responded on 17 December. The Council granted Access Info partial access to the documents requested: we were provided with the summary of the discussions but without the names of the countries which had been for or against any particular amendment. -
The most satisfying part of this #datajournalism by @cityjournalism grad @joedyke is how transparent it is http://t.co/hnfcClD
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