Category Archives: Shares

Share: Adrian Holovaty, Soundslice – XOXO Festival 2013 (Video)

From the video description: Adrian Holovaty, Soundslice – XOXO Festival (2013) What do gypsy jazz and Python have in common? Adrian Holovaty, the Chicago-based developer and accomplished jazz guitarist responsible for EveryBlock, Chicago Crime, and the Django framework, named after gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt. Adrian’s jazz guitar renditions on YouTube have garnered over 17… Read More »

Share: Sha Hwang and Chrys Wu @ White House Safety Datapalooza (Video)

From the video description: Sha Hwang and Chrys Wu talk about how freely available government data empowers journalists to investigate and tell stories through visualizations and how Trulia, Fast Company’s Co.Design, O’Reilly Media and Hacks/Hackers hosted a data journalist workshop in San Francisco and New York to teach others how to retell a story based… Read More »

Share: Americans and Text Messaging

Report: Adults ages 18 to 24 exchange an average of 109.5 text messages a day. Young adults are the most avid texters by a wide margin. Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day—that works out to more than 3,200 texts per month—and the… Read More »

Share: Pat Stiegman of ESPN.com (Video)

From the video description: Pat Stiegman of ESPN.com talks about mobile at the “Smart Phones for Smart Journalists” workshop sponsored by the Online News Association and the Freedom Forum on April 9, 2010 at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Share: Carr: ‘The Media Equation: The Fall and Rise of Media’

New York Times’ David Carr writes a funeral dirge for traditional (aka “old”) media. Favorite bit: Where do all the burgeoning pixels come from? Everywhere, and cheap at that. An outfit called Demand Media now tests headlines for reader salience and cranks out thousands of articles and videos daily that it pays about $20 apiece… Read More »