March 20th, 2015
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The Guardian’s James Ball offers his advice for what journalism students and schools can do to help themselves and the industry.

(Source: youtube.com)

November 17th, 2014
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[N]obody gets a drop more data than what they pay for. The ISPs make damn sure of that. If you pay for, say, a 10 megabit per second connection, you are not getting any more than 10 megabits of data per second even if you have Bittorrent set to “Stun” all day every day.
The ISPs may not like that you are using all of the Internet you are paying them for. Well, boohoo.
November 3rd, 2014
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samkeene:

Gephi is an open source data viz app made especially for visualizing large data sets of social graphs.

Reblogged from Life and Code
August 6th, 2014
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fastcodesign:

App Turns NYC Subway Maps Into Interactive Data Visualizations

If you’re a New Yorker who likes to nerd out about maps, urbanism, and data visualization, a new app called Tunnel Vision will be like poetry to your eyes. But even if you’re not into any of those things, it might make dismal waits on subway platforms a little more fun.

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(Source: fastcodesign.com)

Reblogged from Fast Company
June 25th, 2014
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The Supreme Court struck a major blow in favor of digital privacy Wednesday by ruled that police generally need a warrant before searching the cell phone or personal electronic device of a person arrested.

Writing for a nearly unanimous court Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts said searches of digital devices for information are not comparable to searches law enforcement officers often conduct for contraband after making an arrest.
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