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The embedded clips make this most useful post ever RT @JewettCW: Scientists pinpoint which #dance moves are hot & not http://ow.ly/2BXoL
Slashdot discussion: Rackspace shuts down Koran-burning church's websites. "Not a constitutional issue" http://bit.ly/cBX4Qp
Techdirt: News website paywall drawback: sources go to sites where their interviews/info have wider reach: http://bit.ly/9OSEci
Thursday 14:35
re: advice to next-gen journos from @jayrosen_nyu: you lost me at "You need to know Flash" http://bit.ly/cZKz1Y
Gawker's rooftop at last night's @HacksHackers mixer. The dance floor was lonely. http://bit.ly/anZqmb
RT @mariancw: Iraq has been deadliest war for the media since WW2, w/ 230 murders of journalists & media workers. http://bit.ly/a6AVtx
OKCupid has an awesome chart about "What xx people like": Among Asians, vietnamese food is tops. As it should be. http://gizmo.do/dBirN0
Google Instant Search does not live-refresh as you type in "fuck". Their fancy invention is useless to 90% of Internet users.
From the bottom of this CJR piece: TPM, using chartbeat, found that most readers quit before midway of long stories http://bit.ly/9YElPn
RT @ProPublica: Announcing the ProPublica Nerd Blog. http://bit.ly/bytJ4c
DailyFinance @jeffbercovici looks at media vs. Huff Po's obsession with balloon boy http://bit.ly/aXGuT2
Foreign Policy: How different is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? http://bit.ly/9Z7i5p
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Williamsburg rooftop, into Manhattan
SoHo graffiti, near Thompson St.
East Village auto garage graffiti
From the deck of the New Museum
Wednesday 3:00
What happens when your rand() function sucks: http://bit.ly/hzIYF h/t @reddit
Slate's Tim Noah examines U.S. income equality with a visual guide: http://bit.ly/ancGwa
Awa Dancing Festival in Kouenji, Tokyo
...and one was playing his guitar at day break.
Thursday 4:51
Hm: @reddit says that media should stop calling it "small" when it has 40% more pageviews than Digg now http://bit.ly/cN0g9F
I love how this becomes notable only b/c of FB. This asshole would've killed were it the paper's wedding section http://bit.ly/aSeUDA
Study: old people like reading shit about young people http://j.mp/d6BENy
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Eye Heart New York
It’s such a nice day out, I think I’ll make yet another blog about New York… I’ve been looking for an area to test out HTML5, some other WP themes, and to shuffle all my New York-centric BS. I don’t know if I’ll ever complete this site about New York but at least I can [...]
Marina Abramović’s Top 50 Time Hogs; (Women sit around a lot)
OK, now it’s time to arrange the participants in the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set by number of minutes each person stared at Abramovic. The Paco dude who went about a dozen times is the only person, apparently, to have stayed the whole day. It’s interesting to read the comments on [...]
Posted in works Tagged flickr, Marina Abramović, moma, museum of modern art, performance art, web scraping 3 Comments
The Most Viewed Portraits: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the MOMA
Thought it’d be fun to see the 200 most viewed portraits on the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set. So I wrote a scraper to collect each portrait’s stats, including page views. A number of celebrities participated in the marathon performance art exhibit, including Sharon Stone, Rufus Wainright, and Bjork. Other top [...]
Marina Abramović Melts Before Your Eyes
Wrote a quick scrape of the Museum of Modern Art’s gallery of Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present”. This is Abramovic’s portrait for the last 68 days (I guess the upload isn’t complete yet). (Update, all 72 days are up, I’ll get around to updating this. Number 72 is a doozy) Photos by Marco Anelli. [...]
Pfizer Data Redux
Updated the code and results to my guide on how to scraper Pfizer’s list of payments to doctors. It now contains a more normalized file that has a line for every doctor and payment. The aggregate totals changed marginally.
Coding for Journalists 101 : A four-part series
So a little while ago, I set out to write some tutorials that would guide the non-coding-but-computer-savvy journalist through enough programming fundamentals so that he/she could write a web scraper to collect data from public websites. A “little while” turned out to be more than a month-and-a-half. I actually wrote most of it in a [...]
Posted in works Tagged coding, journalism, pfizer, programming, ruby, tutorial, web scraping 18 Comments
Coding for Journalists 104: Pfizer’s Doctor Payments; Making a Better List
Update (4/28): Replaced the code and result files. Still haven’t written out a thorough explainer of what’s going on here. Update (4/19): After revisiting this script, I see that it fails to capture some of the payments to doctors associated with entities. I’m going to rework this script and post and update soon. So the [...]
Coding for Journalists 103: Who’s been in jail before: Cross-checking the jail log with the court system; Use Ruby’s mechanize to fill out a form
This is part of a four-part series on web-scraping for journalists. As of Apr. 5, 2010, it was a published a bit incomplete because I wanted to post a timely solution to the recent Pfizer doctor payments list release, but the code at the bottom of each tutorial should execute properly. The code examples are [...]
Posted in works Tagged coding, courts, journalism, mechanize, programming, ruby, tutorial 2 Comments
Coding for Journalists 102: Who’s in Jail Now: Collecting info from a county jail site
This is part 2 of a 4-part series in introductory coding for journalists. Go here for the first lesson. This lesson and code will still be verbose, but will have a lot less hand-holding than the previous one.
NYC Restaurant Health Inspections: The Cleanest Cuisines