https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/22/harvard-occupy/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/22/harvard-occupy/#comment-324 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:43:10 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=121#comment-324 […] focused on Occupy the Harvard Library. I chose to use the same set of articles as in a previous assignment because I wanted to have the possibility of browsing the same information through different designs […]

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/22/harvard-occupy/#comment-33 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:34:52 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=121#comment-33 Actually each bubble title links to the original title. I think with a nice design it would be interesting to see what would be the result of automatically updating a timeline in real time with articles that are being published. I think Google News was doing something like this at some point. I would like to be able to easily visualize the main points that are discussed around a story as it progresses through time.

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/22/harvard-occupy/#comment-17 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:38:37 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=121#comment-17 I love the decision to bring a timeline into this assignment. It’s got terrific potential, and I hope it’s a tool you’ll dig into a bit further. I suspect the optimum use for the tool (not possible within a 4 hour assignment, obviously) is to combine your summaries of events with links to journalistic coverage. And, as mentioned in class, I think there’s lots of potential to build better, open timeline tools for use by journalists. Very cool.

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