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"Google rolled out a simple little feature today: enter “unemployment rate wayne county†and they’ll offer you a chart. Click it, and you’ll see the unemployment rate since 1990, and be able to add other counties to compare.
"This’ll get much more interesting if Google follows through (from the Official Google Blog):
The data we’re including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. … we have been working on creating a new service that make lots of data instantly available for intuitive, visual exploration. Today’s launch is a first step in that direction.
Tidy snippets of civic info, linkable and comparable, from all aspects of public data — that’s one damn cool almanac! More like Everyblock than Wikipedia. Data, but easier. Fucking linkable!
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"In June I’ll start my first full-time journalism gig, as the News Applications Editor at the Chicago Tribune. The team I’ll be leading will be a new one, composed of programmers and investigative journalists, and we’ll be building news applications in conjunction with the Trib’s fantastic investigative team.
"Specifically what we’ll make, I don’t know, but I anticipate building a wide variety of data-driven web applications to visualize data and present investigative stories online. (If only the PolitiFact crew hadn’t set the bar so high…)"
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Newspaper accounted for 26.4% of local online dollars in 2008, down slightly from 26.9% in 2007 while pure-play companies such as Yahoo and Google, lost 2.1% of its local online share to 47.6%.
Borrell suggests that the "feet-on-the-street" sales teams, an estimated 98,000, are giving newspapers an edge over Internet-only sites. The firm forecasts that the local sales teams of newspapers will grow 30% in 2009 compared to 2008.
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More about how your Twitter a count can be hijacked
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Twitter accounts can be hacked.