Roundtable Front-End Performance with Vox Media
- By Daniel Bachhuber, Erin Kissane
- Daniel Bachhuber, Ian Carrico, Dan Chilton, Gabriel Luethje, Ryan D. Murphy, Jason Ormand
- Vox Media
A chat roundtable from the News Nerdery Slack group focused on practical ways to make sites (and news apps) run faster.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 1
- By Erika Owens
Journalism conferences this week in Philadelphia, Halifax, and throughout Spain.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 26
- By Erika Owens
Friday is the deadline to apply to the Online Journalism Awards, plus many meetups and conferences coming up in June.
Event Beyond “Be Like Facebook”
The SND judges’ controversial decision to give Facebook its “World’s Best Designed” award in digital—and the resulting unease in the journalism world—points to larger questions in our relationship with third-party platforms and our understanding of the scope of “design.”
Project Tracking Amtrak 188
How curiosity and tinkering let Al Jazeera America publish historical data for a derailed train’s route without Amtrak’s cooperation.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 18
- By Erika Owens
This week, journalist coders work on documentation in Portland while Hacks/Hackers in Toronto and Copenhagen tackle security.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 11
- By Erika Owens
This week you’ll find events about archiving, security, dealing with harassment, mapping, and more.
Learning Why Journalism Students Don’t Learn CS
- By Lindsey Cook
Opportunities overfloweth in journalism code—so why aren’t more journalism students signing up for computer science classes? Lindsey Cook reports back on a year of research.
Event Data Journalism Problems in Europe
- By Zara Rahman
Zara Rahman reports back on surprising insights from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
Learning Audio in the Browser: Horrors and Joys
- By Tyler Fisher
- NPR
On the web, audio has never received the wide browser support that images and videos have enjoyed. What gives? What’s next?
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 27
- By Erika Owens
This week new Hacks/Hackers chapters start in Italy and Germany, and, tickets go on sale for SRCCON.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 20
- By Erika Owens
Drones is a popular topic this week at meetups and day-long events.
Learning Automating Transparency
- By Ed Summers
Sometimes you write a piece of software and it gets used for purposes you didn’t quite imagine at the time. Sometimes you write a piece of software and it unexpectedly rearranges your life.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 13
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week throughout Europe as well as international gatherings in Perugia and Austin.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 6
Deadline to propose to ONA and SRCCON this Friday, plus events in the US, UK, and more.
Interview Bot Benediction, 2015
Our now-traditional #botweek closing peers inside our metaphors and the fragile magic of the bots we make, use, and love.
Roundup Attack of the Helpful Chatbots
A roundup of the little bots that make daily research and administrative tasks easier and more fun.
Project The Strange Tale of FCCliefs
- By Dylan Yep
It started as a joke and turned into hashing through thousands of Net Neutrality comments the hard way, then building a chatbot to post them and interact with curious readers.
How-to Die, Bot, Die!
When and how to say goodbye to the bots when something has gone terribly wrong…or when no one’s really laughing anymore.
How-to Hi, Weatherbot!
A Node-based Twitter bot, one easy step at a time—plus the way John Keefe teaches basic botmaking to class of journalism/design students.
