Sixty years ago, computers were used for the first time to predict the outcome of a presidential race. CBS used the UNIVAC, one of the first commercial computers, on loan. The prediction was spot on, but a decade passed before the computer’s potential was finally realized on election night.
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The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President : All Tech Considered : NPR
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Data Journalism - On The Media
The immense amounts of data collected by local, state and federal government agencies can be an incredibly valuable trove for enterprising journalists. It can also be a pointless slog. Texas Tribune reporter Matt Stiles and Duke University computational journalism professor Sarah Cohen explain how they find good stories in a sea of government data.
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Rebooting the News #52
From http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/05/17/rebootingTheNews52.html
Jay is traveling to Toronto for the fantastic Mesh10 conference, so Jeremy Zilar of the NY Times filled in as guest.
We talked about blogging at the Times and blogging in NYC.
http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/reboot10May17.mp3
A teeny bit of Angry Birds was thrown in for fun. :-)
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Rebooting the News #47
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EdgeTheory Conversation 3: The Battle Between Real-Time Reporting and Curation
Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss the issue of real-time news reporting and curation, most recently seen with this week’s controversy involving TechCrunch and Teens In Tech CEO Daniel Brusilovsky. Are we going to see a transformation of journalism from solely content creation to a mix of content curation, and if not, how can we compensate investigative journalism?
People mentioned include: Loic Le Meur, Gabe Rivera, Loren Feldman, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Marshall Kirkpatrick
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NYT’s Alan McLean on Website Performance
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Clay Shirky on journalism, paywalls, and future
Clay Shirky talks about the future of accountability journalism, newspapers, why revenue isn’t the problem, and why paywalls aren’t the solution.