Features / Roundup
Roundup US Word Cup Roundup
- By Tom Meagher
- FiveThirtyEight, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Data editor and soccer fan Tom Meagher rounds up interesting, unusual, and beautifully executed apps and interactives.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 30
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers London meetup today and tomorrow kicks off Julython, a month-long event where developers around the world work on pet projects and track their progress and commits.
Roundup Meet FCC Squishify and OpenImage
- By Erin Kissane
- Matt Carroll , Brian Jacobs, Joanna S. Kao, Sebastian Kraus, Yvonne Leow, Dan Schultz, Andrew Tran, Andrew Vitvitsky
- OpenNews
In part one and part two of our #owhack report-backs, we introduced four new projects that emerged from the Hack Day. Today, we introduce the final two and wrap up with our notes from the event’s closing circle.
Roundup Meet KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane
- Zeynep Heyzen Ateş, Chris Barr, Lyre Calliope, Harlo Holmes, Friedrich Lindenberg, Rebekah Monson, Aurelia Moser, Latoya Peterson, Chris Sopher, Mike Tigas, Marcos Vanetta, Kawandeep Virdee
Earlier today, I posted a few details about works-in-progress emerging from last weekend’s MIT-Knight-Mozilla Hack Day. The event produced six great projects, and we have two more to share with you: KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane.
Roundup Meet Disputed Territories and SSN Redactor
- By Erin Kissane
- Manuel Aristarán, Jos Flores, Alyson Hurt, Waldo Jaquith, Jonathan Stray, Ying Quan Tan, Gus Wezerek, Katie Zhu
- OpenNews
Over the weekend, we put on the third Knight-Mozilla-MIT Hack Day, leading into the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. As usual, the hack day was loosely organized around the conference’s theme: this year, “The Open Internet and Everything After.” After 24 hours of hacking in the welcoming environment of the MIT Media Lab (spread over two days because we believe in sleeping), we ended up with six wonderful projects ranging from an ultra-practical redaction utility to a fake astroturf campaign againt Net Neutrality.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 23
- By Erika Owens
Open Source Bridge and Investigative Reporters and Editors conferences on the west coast of the U.S. this week, plus Hacks/Hackers round the world.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 3
- By Erika Owens
“Follow the money” hackathon this weekend throughout Latin America, and get your SRCCON session proposals in by Friday.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 21
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Berlin and Lima this week. Deadlines approaching for HacksLabs grants and SRCCON proposals.
Roundup Derek Willis on Newsroom Innovation
A tweeted rebuttal to selected claims in the NYT Innovation Report from a journalism-code insider at the Times.
Roundup What “Open” Really Means for 538, Vox, and The Upshot
- By Erin Kissane
- Trei Brundrett, Amanda Cox, Andrei Scheinkman, Derek Willis
- FiveThirtyEight, The New York Times, Vox Media
Now that FiveThirtyEight, Vox, and the Upshot have been live for a few weeks, we’re taking a closer look at the data, and especially the code, that each has released.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 5
- By Erika Owens
Hackathons this weekend in Argentina and Brussels, plus Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world this month.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 14
- By Erika Owens
Excited about maps after State of the Map? FOSS4G deadline is April 15, plus Chicas Poderosas comes to Miami this weekend.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 31
Today is deadline day for Wikimania, plus get your Data Journalism Awards entries and Open Source Bridge proposals in by Friday.
Roundup Quakebots and Pageview Quotas: Bot or Be Botted?
- By Matt Waite
Matt Waite on Daft Punk, algorithmic news, hamster wheels, and journalism’s Rushkoff moment.
Roundup Welcome to Bot Week
- By Erin Kissane
Automated news-gathering tools aren’t new, but they’re multiplying like crazy and getting quite a bit of attention. Little bots have also turned into interesting remixing devices and distribution channels, especially on Twitter. This week on Source, we’re going 100% bot.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 17
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers are meeting up in NYC, London, and Berlin this week. Plus, deadline for submissions for the Knight News Challenge to answer: “How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?”
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 10
- By Erika Owens
Talking open data this weekend in Montevideo, plus lots of Hacks/Hackers events around the world this month.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 24
- By Erika Owens
The NICAR conference is this week, but the news nerd fun doesn’t end there.
