by Ron Schreiner copyright 2011 all rights reserved A review of “Hacked! – Why You Should Care About Privacy in Social Media” by Hacks and Hackers Twin Cities ( Disclaimer: I was one of the discussion panelists during this event ) Are Journalists (“Hacks”) and the digital literati of the computer culture (“Hackers”) so different from one another when it comes to (what? Pursuing Freedom of information? Transparency?)?
Today we’re launching a new Hacks/Hackers series on Poynter. Each week we’ll feature a How To on new tools and emerging trends in technology. The first in the series is Katharine Jarmul, @kjam, on finding and using good APIs for data. You can check it out here. Robert Hernandez, @webjournalist, and I, @bethdavidz, are putting together the series with the help Poynter’s Mallary Tenore, @mallarytenore, our incredible editor.
Post en español Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires is announcing a hackathon (a day of programming between journalists and software developers) in order to work on Mapa76.Info, an Internet software for the automatic extraction and visualization of data from text documents. The hackathon will take place on Saturday, August 13, in the pressroom of the mega-exhibition Tecnopolis Argentina (photo) and will focus on the trials of the last military dictatorship, which are currently in progress.
English post here!**[ ]2** ** Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires convoca a un hackatón (una jornada de programación entre periodistas y programadores de software) con el objetivo de trabajar sobre Mapa76.Info, un software de Internet para extracción y visualización automática de datos desde documentos de texto. En este caso el hackatón sucederá el sábado 13 de agosto en la sala de prensa de la megamuestra argentina Tecnópolis (foto) y estará dedicado a los juicios de la última dictadura militar actualmente en curso.
A new chapter of Hacks/Hackers is launching in Brighton, a city on the south coast of the UK, home to a wealth of developer and journalistic talent. Hacks/Hackers Brighton will kick off with a meetup from 3.30-5.30pm on Thursday 8 September in the Brighton Dome. The event will be part of the Brighton Digital Festival, a month-long celebration of digital culture, and is organised by industry news and jobs site Journalism.
For the second year in a row, Hacks/Hackers and The Poynter Institute are offering one full scholarship (a $895 value!) to attend Building News Applications With Data, a three-day seminar in St. Petersburg, Fla. Apply with this Google form. The seminar takes place Aug. 17-19, 2011. Faculty includes Hacks/Hackers co-founder Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times; John Keefe of Senior Executive Producer for News at WNYC, New York Public Radio; and Matt Waite, professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and designer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact at the St.
For the July meeting of Hacks/Hackers Austin, Kristen Carney of Cubit Planning discussed 7 Awesome Examples of Writing About Data That Will Drive Eyeballs To Your Site. Covering a variety of tools, Carney demonstrated the value of seven examples: landing pages, data disproving an accepted truth, analysis of social media, tweets about data, infographics, data about everyday stuff and data about making money. And Gregory Foster of Consumers Union, recently returned from the 2011 Civic Media Conference at MIT, covered some of the winners of the Knight News Challenge.
Este post también está en español Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires held a super “Demo Day” in Buenos Aires, followed by sending a team to a hackathon in Rosario, located 300 km from the capital of Argentina. The meeting also drew investors and entrepreneurs in the tech world. Malte Spitz of Germany was the keynote to the second Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires meetup, which drew more than 150 people at Areatres – Palermo Hollywood.
This post is also in english De pronto, sucedieron dos eventos con apenas una semana de diferencia: un super “Demo Day” en Buenos Aires, y un mini-hackatón en Rosario, a 300 kilómetros de la capital argentina. El alemán Malte Spitz fue la figura central del segundo Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires, encuentro entre periodistas y programadores que reunió más de 150 personas, en Areatres – Palermo Hollywood. Su presencia estuvo amenazada por las cenizas volcánicas que se esparcieron por Argentina, pero finalmente pudo llegar a contar su increíble historia de periodismo de datos.
The Design Thinking hands-on workshop with Hong Qu, one of the first designers at YouTube, took place at the CUNY Journalism school. It led the attendees through the premise behind user persona testing. Then Hong had us get together with teams and create user persona scenarios and wireframes for 5 ideas submitted by attendees; first on paper, then with Omnigraffle. The team topics: Finding medical price info Gourmeet Penpal news Event sign-up Videogames: mobile mall stats page Hong explained that taking the time to identify users and iteratively build from paper to wireframe and onward minimizes the risk of making something unusable.