HIGHWAY AFRICA TWITTER NETWORK

Analysis of the Twitter network at the Highway Africa conference using #HAGFMD2012. The prezi presentation shows the highlights. http://prezi.com/kdphldzuhdet/ha-twitter-network/ 

Drones: News that flies

Obama must in youth have liked to watch those hobby airplanes, small radio controlled aircrafts with a motor running on alcohol. At least that is what I think about when a read stories about drones used in war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama doubled the number of drones attacks, resulting in between 1,492 and 2,378 a total number persons died between 2004 and 2011. Automated warfare, that is very efficient, but being a reporter, how about drone journalism?
Published Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/08/could-ar-drones-be-the-future-of-journalism/

Datajournalistiek: handboek of RTFM

The Data Journalism Handbook; Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bouegru. O'Reilly Media.

Paperback edition $17,49; Kindle edition $13,79

Gratis online versie van het handbook op: http://www.datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

De lezers lopen weg, de advertentiesinkomsten dalen, en online levert nauwelijks iets op. Het gaat slecht met de kranten en dat leidt tot gesomber over de journalistiek. Gaat de journalistiek misschien met de oude media ten onder? Opmerkelijk is dat tegelijkertijd het aantal nieuwe uitdrukkingen en combinatie met journalistiek toeneemt: webjournalistiek, multimediajournalistiek, online journalistiek, digitale journalistiek, computer assisted reporting(CAR). Het afgelopen jaar kwam een nieuwe term in de mode: datajournalistiek. De journalistiek lijkt me verre van dood, maar te zeggen dat datajournalistiek iets heel nieuws is, gaat wat ver.
Gepubliceerd op: De Nieuwe Reporter

Mapserver

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Droidmote

Remote mouse

When I am giving a training I use my laptop for demo's or presentations. It often happens however that I am not sitting behind my machine, but walking through the classroom. For the next slide or other input on my laptop, I have to walk back. There are software solutions for this, but droidmote server and client steals the show. With the server running on the laptop and the client on an android phone, you have full controll using a remote mouse, keyboard, gamepad multi touch touchpad, over a wireless network. And with GamepadTouch2 enabled you even control touch screen devices.
Published at Gearburn: http://gearburn.com/2012/08/droidmote-a-contender-for-the-best-remote-control-app-weve-ever-seen/

Woonplaats Kamerleden

Naar NRC: http://digitaleeditie.nrc.nl/digitaleeditie/NH/2012/6/20120712___/1_04/index.html#page4

M&G is leading the Twitter Network in SA

Analyzing the Twitter network of 500 South African journalists shows a prominent role for the tweeps of the Mail&Guardian. Using the Twitter names on Hacks List (http://hacks.mediahack.co.za/ ) downloading their relations, and analyzing them in Gephi (www.gephi.org ) and NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ ) creates the following graph:
(Published at Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/07/how-to-make-your-journalistic-twitter-network-rock-a-case-study/)

Twitter 500 network of SA journalists