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Johnston Press Digital Publishing’s invisibility in Google News
Google News results for Johnston Press pages Malcolm Coles asks a reasonable question of Johnston Press Digital Publishing: have they looked at their own pages in Google News? It seems a reliance on...
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Are your comments invisible? How about your website?
If your news organisation uses javascript for its comments, or for any other part of the site, you may well be advised to start doing some testing. Malcolm Coles, the Editor of Which.co.uk, has been...
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Removing Nofollow on blog links and meta – and invisible comments
A couple months ago I installed a plugin on the blog that meant search engines would index links in comments: by default WordPress uses ‘nofollow‘ on comments to stop spammers abusing them to boost...
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Elsevier’s ‘Article of the Future’ resembles websites of the past
Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher, has announced details of their grandly titled Article of the Future project. Their prototypes, published at http://beta.cell.com, are the result of what...
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Guest post: visualising mobile phone data – the data retention app
In a guest post Lorenz Matzat, editor of ZEIT Online’s Open Data Blog, writes about the background to their online app exploring the issues around data retention by mobile phone companies. It’s not...
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Coding for journalists: 10 programming concepts it helps to understand
If you’re looking to get into coding chances are you’ll stumble across a raft of jargon which can be off-putting, especially in tutorials which are oblivious to your lack of previous programming...
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Journalisme et code : 10 grands principes de programmation expliqués
Cedric Motte asked if he could translate Coding for journalists: 10 programming concepts it helps to understand into French. Here’s the result – first published on NewsResources. Si vous envisagez de...
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Panini sticker albums – a great way to learn programming and statistics
1970 sticker album – image by John Cooper When should you stop buying football stickers? I don’t mean how old should you be – but rather, at what point does the law of diminishing returns mean that it...
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Just add JavaScript: use these 3 tools to get instant interactivity
Maria Crosas Batista highlights ways to get started with adding interactivity to your journalism. This post is for beginners that are learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Below are 3 useful websites to...
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Here’s the thinking behind my new MA in Data Journalism
Cogs image by Stuart MadeleyA few weeks ago I announced that I was launching a new MA in Data Journalism, and promised that I would write more about the thinking behind it. Here, then, are some of the...
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Some of the best interactive storytelling involves the use of JavaScript — what has sometimes been called “JavaScript Journalism“. This video, made for students on the MA in Data Journalism at...
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I made a bunch of tools to make journalists’ lives easier. Here are my 5...
Image by Sean MacEntee. CC BY 2.0 license Tara Calishain used JavaScript to create a collection of tools that save time for journalists conducting research. In a special guest post for OJB, she...
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