http://delicious.com/mattmcalister bookmarks posted by mattmcalister 2009-11-08T05:19:32Z http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/11/06/factual-launches-open-data-platform-including-api/ mattmcalister Structured data has an open platform, thanks to a new startup aptly named Factual. At first glance, it seems like Excel on the web. However, Factual is more database-oriented, with joining and filtering built-in. Plus, sharing and discussing the data is an integral part of the experience. Most functions on the site, including both reading and writing data, can also happen via the Factual API. data apis 2009-11-08T05:17:36Z http://www.factual.com/ mattmcalister data apis collaboration 2009-11-06T15:48:33Z http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/04/digital-media-radio-zimbabwe-african-radio mattmcalister The aim was to come up with a range of solutions, which will help the radio station to increase its reach and output. Can you help from outside and far away? Yes, you can. activism activate09 zimbabwe media technology journalism guardian 2009-10-30T14:03:53Z http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/blurry-picture-of-open-apis-standards.html mattmcalister some companies are playing fast and loose with terms that should be better understood. there are essentially three major ways to bucket "open" APIs apis openness 2009-10-30T13:32:30Z http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/10/30/outlook2010-a-flipbook-design-for-newspapers/ mattmcalister newspapers innovation print paper 2009-10-30T12:23:06Z http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/first-5000-tags-released-to-the-linked-data-cloud/ mattmcalister we would need to map our subject headings onto other Web databases such as Freebase and DBPedia. So that’s exactly what we did. api nytimes media tags linkeddata openplatform freebase semanticweb 2009-10-29T19:34:26Z http://www.docstoc.com/docs/13956264/US-Hyperlocal-News-Market mattmcalister presentations local media research 2009-10-28T03:15:23Z http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/a-graphic-history-of-newspaper-circulation-over-the-last-two-decades mattmcalister we've taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what's actually happened to newspaper circulation. newspapers media news circulation 2009-10-28T03:06:12Z http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/10/27/Stephen-Timms-reports-progress-on-Making-Public-Data-Public.aspx mattmcalister we held 3 developer days hosted at The Guardian's Kings Place offices in central London on the 14th-16th September. As an organisation they were best placed to help us undertake this task, having built a community of talented developers and opened up their API. opendata data government UK visualization guardian openplatform timbernerslee 2009-10-24T05:37:20Z http://www.idealog.com/blog/aggregation-and-curation-two-concepts-that-explain-a-lot-about-digital-change mattmcalister Aggregation without curation is, normally, not very helpful. Curation creates the brand. publishing aggregation curation journalism 2009-10-24T05:36:11Z http://emediavitals.com/article/16/curation-end-content-aggregation-we-know-it mattmcalister While curation is more labor-intensive at first, packaging articles in context with previous content can increase page views on material that would have previously been relegated to your site’s archives. aggregation curation journalism 2009-10-23T13:57:54Z http://www.footytube.com/openfooty/service.php?package=Team&method=getGuardianEditorial mattmcalister Returns an OPG url to recent Guardian news articles for the associated team id guardian openplatform apis football footytube 2009-10-23T11:26:14Z http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/23/information-vs-confusion/ mattmcalister dataviz 2009-10-23T11:26:03Z http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/10/19/small-bridges-to-proximate-spaces/ mattmcalister flickr machinetags noticings geotagging apis games 2009-10-23T11:26:03Z http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/getting-started-with-data-gov-uk-triplr-sparyql-and-yahoo-pipes/ mattmcalister government data opendata yql pipes sparql tonyhirst maps