The first berries from the garden.

journo-geekery:

Creating a metric for news apps | Brian Ableson

Current colleague/2013 OpenNews Fellow Brian shares some work around metrics, derived from our Red Carpet Project.  

From [the summarized] examples, a pattern emerges: a “successful” news application is one that presents a reader with a story and offers them an opportunity to dig deeper. Given this common structure of news applications, it should be possible to create a simple metric that captures the degree to which readers use an app to move from the far view to the near view. Such a metric might help newsrooms begin to assess readers’ level of engagement; defined here as the intersection of what readers want and what newsrooms want readers to do. 

Via Mozilla Source and lots of other places including Brian himself.

I really enjoyed seeing the banding Brian highlighted—there’s a single-mindedness to that effort that’s helpful to understand.

vimeo:

Welcome to the first installment of “Behind the Vimeo,” in which we interview the people who make this place. And who make it, um, special. Ever wonder about Lead Designer Justin Dickinson’s favorite Broadway musical?

If so, head to the Vimeo Staff Blog > 

journo-geekery:

fastcodesign:

Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia

Every Wikipedia entry has an optional feature we take for granted—geotagging. An entry on the Lincoln Memorial will be linked to its specific latitude and longitude in Washington D.C. On any individual post, this may or may not be a useful thing. But what about looking at these locations en masse?

That was a question asked by data viz specialist and programmer Olivier Beauchesne. To find out, he downloaded all of Wikipedia (it’s open-source, after all) then used an algorithm that would assemble 300 topical clusters from popular, related keywords. Then he placed the location of each article in these topical clusters on a map. What he found was astounding.

“Eventually, Beauchesne’s maps evolve to something more than the locations of everything in the world. They become the locations of, quite simply, everything we know.”

Lovely work.

searchengineland:

When it comes to getting general news and information, consumers worldwide put as much trust in search engines as they do in traditional media — and more in both than they do in social media.

timfsbrown:

shout out to the mw @jenab920