Poligraft: the transparency tool set to make investigative journalism ... The Sunlight Foundation has launched a new tool – Poligraft – to encourage greater transparency of public figures and assist journalists in providing the extra details behind stories. By scanning news articles, press releases or blog posts, which can be submitted to the program by inserting the URL or pasting the entire article, the technology can then pick out people or organisations and identify the financial or political links between them. Discussing the impact of this technology, Megan Taylor writes on PoynterOnline that it is a simple yet powerful tool for the news industry. Anyone can use this, but it could be especially powerful in the hands of hands of journalists, bloggers, and others reporting or analyzing the news. See a video below from the Sunshine Foundation posted on Youtube explaining how the technology works: Hatip: Editorsweblog Similar posts:
Let’s Celebrate Google’s Biggest Failures! “We celebrate our failures,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday when speaking at the Techonomy confernce, in response to the surprise closure of his company’s Google Wave product. When it comes to failures, Google’s celebrating more than you might realize. Some believe that anything Google touches is golden. Yesterday’s closure of Google Wave is another reminder of how this isn’t so. Below, a summary of important Google products that haven’t made the cut, over time. For each product, I’ve also pulled a “celebratory failure quote.” I agree. On to the failures, listed in order of closure date: Google Wave (May 2009 to August 2010) Google Wave was perhaps one of the most heavily hyped products that Google’s put out, only to have it fall on its face. But rather than the revolutionary communications change that Google suggested Wave would be — a step beyond email and instant messaging — Google Wave found little adoption and lots of head scratching about what to do with it. And:
How Social Media Drives New Business: Six Case Studies Businesses both big and small are flocking to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Foursquare. The fact is that a presence on these platforms not only allows companies to engage in conversations with consumers, but also serves as an outlet to drive sales through deals and coupons. And while major brands like Starbucks, Virgin, and Levi’s have been participating in the social web for some time now, the rate of adoption among small businesses is increasing too. The Creme Brulee Man: Food from street carts have become a foodie favorite for San Franciscans. The other use of Twitter for Kimball is to tell people what flavor of creme brulee he is serving in a given day. Kimball says he has no marketing budget and Twitter has been a great way to amass fans. Joie De Vivre: Joie De Vivre, a company that operates 33 luxury hotels in California is using a variety of social media platforms to drive sales and marketing for its properties. Dr. Last October, Dr.
Delicious, Evernote, TheBrain: para guardar información valiosa - SEP. 12, 2010 - Tecnología - Vida Por Francis Pisani.- El interés de la información que encontramos, procesamos, y eventualmente guardamos, radica en qué hacemos con tales datos, en su valor de uso. La paradoja reside en el hecho de que debemos saber de antemano qué podemos hacer con ellos a fin de usar la herramienta adecuada y guardarla -en su caso- en el lugar apropiado. Quisiera aludir a tres herramientas, que considero de extrema utilidad, para quien quiera o deba manejar cierta cantidad de información. La primera es conocida desde hace más tiempo y, sin embargo, nunca ha atraído realmente a los usuarios no especializados. Lo más sencillo es bajar un plug-in que queda integrado al navegador y, cuando encuentre una página de valor, un sencillo clic sobre el ícono de Delicious.com guarda el enlace a la vez que permite atribuirle palabras claves que facilitan su encuentro posterior a pesar del tiempo transcurrido. La segunda herramienta se llama Evernote. LinksDelicious delicious.com Evernote evernote.com
Rdio Gaga: How Spotify’s Inferior Rival Is Playing America Like A Violin Poor old Spotify. Less than a week after Billboard magazine reported that the music-on-demand service had “rebooted” its negotiations with US labels, rival service Rdio has just opened its doors in both the US and Canada, proudly boasting deals with many of those same labels. So what gives? What does Rdio – another European startup boasting unlimited music, anywhere – have that Spotify doesn’t? Two words: faux humility. But I’ll get to that in a second. So here we go: Spotify is amazingly slick as a product. But here’s what would also be a thing of beauty: a magic ATM that, using a slick point and click interface, handed out free dollar bills, printed with tiny ads. Like that magic ATM, Spotify’s app is writing checks its business model can’t cash. And yet to read the European business press – or what passes for it – you’d think that all is well at Spotify. Oh, yes, Rdio. By playing the colonials like a violin. Daniel, You and I can agree on one thing: Europe is better than America.
Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things This blog was founded in 2003 on the philosophy of a read/write Web – a Web in which people can create content as easily as they consume it. This trend eventually came to be known as Web 2.0 – although others preferred Social Web – and was popularized by activities like blogging and social networking. It would be easy to say that the ‘social’ element is still the primary part of today’s Web, since the popular products of this era enable you to say what’s on your mind (Facebook), what’s happening (Twitter), or where you are (Foursquare). All of these are mostly social activities. The more data there is, the better Web services will be at delivering personal value to you. How We Went Beyond Social So how did we arrive at a Web that is less about social and more about you? It’s not how much content you consume that is important, it’s about what you do with data. After the peak of Web 2.0, we (meaning all of us) began to get overwhelmed with the choice of content available.
Nuevas formas de expresar conocimiento: Mapas Mentales Quiero declararles que hace mucho tiempo que me siento atraído por los mapas conceptuales, y quizás en términos más abstractos de como representar el conocimiento en las organizaciones, les comento que no soy un experto en la materia pero por lo que ha sido mi práxis (lectura, uso de productos y experincias del uso de mapas) estos conceptos cada vez más se insertan en la sociedad. Algunos elementos que motivan el uso de otros mecanismos para conceptualizar el conocimiento, es que el pensamiento se ha expresado a través de los siglos en forma lineal (análisis, hipótesis y finalmente una tesis), pero resulta que nuestra mente por lo que plantean los expertos y de mi experiencia personal, funciona en forma diferente, nuestra mente más que un análisis lineal y en esquema de documento tradicional , funciona más como un sitio Web (hipertexto multidemensional), sino basta ver como los grandes pensadores de la humanidad expresan y desarrollan sus ideas. ¿Cómo se utilizan? Manual Open Source Web
PPP To Poll For Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas, who first fired his former polling partner Research 2000 in June and subsequently filed suit alleging that polling conducted by that firm was fraudulent, announced this afternoon that his DailyKos website will soon resume polling with two new partners: Public Policy Polling (PPP) for "horserace" polling in statewide contests and another pollster to be named later for national surveys. The first survey, to be fielded in Delware, will be released next week. Moulitsas was also quick to tweet what will amount to a new standard in polling disclosure: And while we won't be able to do it next week, both pollsters have agreed to RELEASE ALL RAW DATA. We just have to figure out the logistics. Access to raw data will mean that anyone with basic statistical software will be able to use the data to run their own tabulations or analysis. Tom Jensen, PPP's polling director, provided this reaction for The Huffington Post: I'm so excited about all of this I can barely contain myself.