Jourknow
This project, called Jourknow, looks interesting. Although there isn’t a stable release for download yet, goldarn it. It reminds me a little of Ubiquity, the experimental browsing enhancer for Firefox, in its ability to process natural language input. But Jourknow is more concerned with extracting meaning during information gathering and note taking.
Looking forward to seeing [...]
Using Google Maps in journalism
I’m a big fan of Google maps in general, but it can be particularly useful when you’re trying to illustrate a story about a particular area. I experimented with it here, while writing a story about an alleged attack by the Russian government on Kyrgyzstan’s cyber infrastructure.
This wasn’t a blindingly impressive use of Google maps, [...]
The future of freelancing?
What’s going to happen to us poor freelancers? Newspapers and magazines are closing or scaling back in record numbers. Budgets are being cut, and writers are getting laid off - which means more freelancers on the market, competing for less work. Chilling stuff, to be sure.
But there’s another problem facing freelancers, and it’s one that’s [...]
Get yer graph on
Journalists and fiction writers alike often need access to data about all sorts of stuff. Writing a story about how consumer confidence and home prices just nosedived? Might be handy to be able to correlate the two together, over a 20-year history. Maybe you might want to check them against historical employment data. Or the [...]
Mariner software on sale
Mariner, which publishes writers’ software for both Windows and OS X, has its software on sale for previous customers tomorrow in a 40% off one day only blowout. It’s as good an opportunity as any to give Contour, its screenplay development tool, a whirl.
The company launched Contour 1.0 this month. Unlike many of the writing [...]
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