dan turner 12/31/12 dan turner 12/31/12

JLAT Explained in Four Minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbf6jpdrVng JLAT in Four Minutes (Video Download)

A proposal for The Foundry at CITRIS The Journalists' Lab for Apps and Technology from Dan Turner (MIMS, UC Berkeley 2011) and Angela Woodall

dan turner 10/5/12 dan turner 10/5/12

Shoutify Alpha

A learning experiment. Basic JavaScript, and learning some CSS tricks such as embedding a custom font and logo scaling for responsive web design. Still to do: full-page responsive design, "SHOUT TO:" buttons, resolving cross-browser incompatibilities, typographic background pattern.

dan turner 9/21/12 dan turner 9/21/12

Best Way to Address Alerts?

So far, the only way I've found to get the podcast lists to update after the "!" appears is to delete, go to the iTunes Store, resubscribe, download the old podcasts all over again.[/caption]

dan turner 8/7/12 dan turner 8/7/12

For Graeme

There's been a lot of data on this problem and various filtering/registration schemes that have been tried since this paper was written; I recommend searching through Poynter.org's MediaWire (I read it every day). i203_finalpaper_ddt

dan turner 8/7/12 dan turner 8/7/12

Book Cover, First Pass

Thoughts?

dan turner 6/23/12 dan turner 6/23/12

What I Did Last Weekend (Datafest Late Edition)

Award winner at Stanford Datafest! Is the influx of millions of dollars to Wisconsin both for and against Scott Walker an aberration, or have state political races always been powered by "outside" influences? Our project collates and visualizes the amount and proportion of out-of-state money contributed to gubernatorial races in all 50 states and tracks from where this money came (which states, largest individual donors).

Our raw data was scraped from the Sunlight Foundation's and other sources, and cleaned so that it could serve to power our interactive heat map (more to come on how that was made). Original investigative reporting on some of the top donors was added to illustrate how our tool can serve as a springboard for deep, data-driven journalism.

Team Members: Gershon Bialer, Jake Bialer, Vamshidar Reddy Boda,Beth Morrissey, Laura Rena Murray, Bill Tang, Dan Turner

(Note: Yes, the map needs to be resized, and the popups need to be cleaned.)

Live version: http://twoangstroms.com/datafest2/

dan turner 6/9/12 dan turner 6/9/12

What I Did Last Weekend (Music Video Edition)

Shot on an iPhone 4S using iSupr8. Music: "Big Sur" by The Thrills. Coasting1970s_cdrom

dan turner 5/11/12 dan turner 5/11/12

Is the Romney Campaign a Jobs Program for Bush Staffers?

Is the Romney campaign a jobs program for Bush staffers?"

dan turner 4/19/12 dan turner 4/19/12

Noir in One Panel

From Fatale #4, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

dan turner 4/4/12 dan turner 4/4/12

What I've Been Doing

Recovering from this. Props to Specialized helmets. They do their job, and give their lives in the process.

dan turner 3/31/12 dan turner 3/31/12

I've Been Here (Google Maps, 1 April)

The Eames House in Santa Monica.

dan turner 3/28/12 dan turner 3/28/12

#UXfail ESQPolitics

Charlie Pierce's work is vital and must be read. But the Esquire designers could bump up the left margin in their style sheet (Note: black bars show actual reading experience).

dan turner 3/9/12 dan turner 3/9/12

#UXfail Gmail (Double Whammy Edition)

First: This was a live link from my Google Dashboard. In other words, GOOGLE IS CREATING DEAD LINKS IN ITS OWN SETTINGS PAGE. Second, I don't know what's up with that "Help home" floating element.

dan turner 3/3/12 dan turner 3/3/12

#UXfail AngelHack

It really helps the user to tell them what information is required, and in what format, during the process. Not after.

dan turner 2/28/12 dan turner 2/28/12

Use of skin creams plotted against age

dan turner 2/26/12 dan turner 2/26/12

What I Did Last Weekend (Downtown Legoland Station, 14th St.)

The IRT arrives at Downtown Legoland Station, 14th St.

dan turner 2/13/12 dan turner 2/13/12

#UXfail CitiBank

1. I requested these same statements (all of 2011) on Saturday, and they were not available on Monday

2. Why, in 2012, must there be a delay of a day between a request for and access to a digital file they already have? Or does someone have to hand-scan in these things?

3. Why "business day"?"

dan turner 2/10/12 dan turner 2/10/12

#UXfail Numbers

dan turner 1/2/12 dan turner 1/2/12

Was Illustrator's Chart Tool Frozen in Ice Since 1996?

I'd swear those icons are from System 6.

dan turner 12/20/11 dan turner 12/20/11

Relativity and Rosen

Jay Rosen makes some good points in his "View from Nowhere" post. The idea of an impartial position is an important (if fairly recent) framework in journalism, but its limitations and problematic aspects have become the story in the last few years. Perhaps we should extend the metaphor of "position", relative to this framework. Einstein showed that the idea of simultaneity is a false one, and that velocity only is meaningful in terms of a frame of reference. Acceleration, however, was a real effect. Perhaps a way out of this "neutral position" muddle is to measure reportorial/editorial voices not just in comparison to some "liberal" or "conservative" North star, but by the change between these positions. We could call that "media literacy" or something.