Big News (Ask.com)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

http://news.ask.com/news "Ask BigNews is a search and browse service that helps you find and track the most important and most talked about stories in the news. You can: Use the BigFactor to quickly find the hottest stories to follow Track stories automatically and follow their progression over time Check out the Top Videos in ...

Spokesman-Review Ethics Policy (SpokesmanReview.com)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

"This code revision, for the first time, takes into account ethical landmines presented by our online journalism, including blogs."More ethics code links.

Display Tools for Numerical Data (Google Charts API, Swivel, IBM Many Eyes)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Google Charts: "The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts." IBM Many Eyes: "For shared visualization and discovery." Swivel: "Upload and explore data."

Skewz

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

"Skewz is a media rating site for political news. You can rate anything on the Internet in terms of its political bias whether that's liberal or conservative. The bias could be "good bias" or "bad bias", that's up to you."

Video Analyzer / Transcript Analyzer (New York Times)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

"Watch the interactive video ... and analyze the transcript.">Jan. 30, 2008 Republican Debate Jan. 5, 2008 Democratic Debate Jan. 5., 2008 Republican Debate Dec. 13, 2007 Democratic Debate

The New York Times Delivers News and Opinion Through Text Messages

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The New York Times Delivers News and Opinion Through Text Messages "By sending a text message with the appropriate keyword to 698698 (NYTNYT), users can receive the latest three articles from that given section or the most recent column..." New York Times News Section Text ...

2008 Election Map (NPR / Online NewsHour)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/states/

State of the Union by the Numbers (Time Magazine)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

A 2008 State of the Union tag cloud from Time.com. "A look at what President Bush said in his final State of the Union Address delivered Monday night. Each word is scaled in proportion to the number of times it was used. Roll over a word for its frequency."

EveryBlock

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

"A news feed for your block." EveryBlock New York: http://nyc.everyblock.com EveryBlock San Francisco: http://sf.everyblock.com EveryBlock Chicago: http://chicago.everyblock.com

Economic Stimulus Rebate Calculator (Online NewsHour)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

An "economic stimulus" tax rebate calculator from the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (based on the U.S. House proposal as of Jan. 24, 2008):