Little did I expect when, during my latest holiday, I decided I wanted to create some sort of news game. Like with all my coding experiments, it was all about the process of creating it, rather than what happens with it afterwards. Turns out a lot of people liked «You Don’t Know Africa» and played […] Read more – ‘#YouDontKnowAfrica: Learnings from an accidental worldwide internet hit’.
Ein schönes Format: 140 Sekunden sucht die Geschichten hinter einzelnen Tweets. Ich habe für die aktuelle Folge erzählt, wie ich zum Programmieren gekommen bin und warum ich glaube, dass wir alle Code besser verstehen müssen. Der Tweet, auf den sich die Folge bezieht: Als Journalist programmieren lernen – eine Bilanz (und vielleicht eine Anleitung). http://t.co/J7oR14hT […] Read more – ‘140 Sekunden: Code kontrolliert’.
One thing that makes current times so interesting for journalism is that everybody is still looking for a model that will work for journalism in the 21st century. Given the speed of technological change and the complexity of what is now the media landscape, it’s unlikely we’ll ever find a model that will work for […] Read more – ‘An unfinished list of ventures in journalism you should be watching (and why)’.
Once you’ve started getting into programming, there are always new mountains to climb. After learning the basics, my next goal is to be able to make decent use of D3.js, the de facto gold standard for data visualisations. We’ve used it for our visualisation of migrants’ remittances, but that time around, it wasn’t me who […] Read more – ‘Most common birthdays in Switzerland, visualised’.
Below the line comments are finally being challenged as the default format for reader contributions on news sites. Per paragraph annotations as seen on Medium and Quartz have recently gained some traction. They are, rightly so, praised as a more intuitive and inclusive way to comment on a subject matter. However, annotations won’t work for […] Read more – ‘Annotations for articles are great – except when they’re not’.
All questions and statements collected at the GEN News Summit 2013 in Paris. 1. How well do you know your audience? – Summit host Matt Kelly. And related to that: Why don’t we build the audience before we build the product? 2. As technology companies have become media companies, media companies must become technology companies. […] Read more – ‘22 things you should be thinking about if you care about journalism’.
Die NZZ am Sonntag hat die jüngsten Ereignisse in der Türkei zum Anlass genommen, sich mit der Rolle von sozialen Medien auseinander zu setzen. Gute Idee eigentlich – herausgekommen ist mit «Wir zwitschern uns noch zu Tode» ein vorurteilsbehaftetes, argumentativ schwaches Pamphlet. Meine erste Reaktion heute früh war diese. 2013. Die «NZZ am Sonntag» hält […] Read more – ‘Wir blättern uns noch zu Tode’.
Simon Rogers, ehemaliger Data Editor beim Guardian, bald Data Editor bei Twitter, hat den Prozess, den datenjournalistische Projekte typischerweise durchlaufen, visualisiert. A data journalism workflow beginnt bei den verschiedenen Ausgangspunkten, die ein datenjournalistisches Projekt anstossen, und endet bei den verschiedenen Endprodukten. Auf seine Anfrage hin habe ich die Visualisierung ins Deutsche übersetzt. Download als PDF […] Read more – ‘Von Daten zu Geschichten: ein Datenjournalismus-Workflow’.
Apparently, 2013 is the Year of Responsive Design. By the end of the year, everyone and your mother will have a responsive site. But here’s a thing about responsive design: Everyone seems to assume that responsive is all about making your site work well on small screens. Sure enough, that’s important. Yet there’s no particular […] Read more – ‘Why does no news site think big?’.
