John W Rodat

What happened to newspapers?

July 12, 2011 Budget

Interesting article on what’s happened to the business model of newspapers at Virulent Word of Mouse. There’s a lot of discussion of the mechanics and technical developments that pulled advertising into Google’s world, including … And that’s despite the fact that Google was not selling ads at the beginning. A little later, Google invented one […]

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The bigger they are …

July 11, 2011 Journalism

Nate Silvers, fivethirtyeight points out that News Corp News Corp lost $3.4 billion in market capitalization today.” Here’s the Google Finance link. From Paul Hilder and then Noah Raford, observes “Rapid catastrophic loss of reputation > News Corp lost $3.4 billion in market capitalization today.” The larger the difference between perception and reality, the bigger, […]

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Freedom of information laws Punjab, India

July 11, 2011 India

Editorial on open-government and freedom of information in Pubjab, India.

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Why did Gordon Brown put up with the intrusion into his personal and family information

July 11, 2011 Government

I’ve been following Gaby Hinsliff on Twitter for news on the News of the World, phone hack scandal. She wonders why Gordon Brown and his wife didn’t do anything about the reporting of their son’s illness: amazing thing re browns is they surely knew Fraser’s diagnosis dubiously obtained by papers. but didn’t complain, ask for […]

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NewsCorp is a criminal conspiracy … and worse

July 11, 2011 Data

From the Guardian, News International papers targeted Gordon Brown: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family’s medical records (Emphasis added). … Brown was targeted during a period of more […]

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More on economic interrelationships

July 11, 2011 Economics

Graphic from NPR shows why Europe’s Crisis Matter for the US.

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We slide toward talking about economics – and economic slides

July 11, 2011 Economics

The current economic distress in the US and in the EU have common threads both financially and politically. Certainly the public reactions do. In particular, both involve protecting lenders to a much greater degree than borrowers and much more than the public, which in various ways pays to protect the lenders. They also both involve […]

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More sports data

June 24, 2011 Data

I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis and still love Moneyball. Some years back I wrote an op-ed for the NY Post (no longer online) that said, that we need some Billy Beane’s in Medicaid. Beane is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Using sports data is a great means to get through to […]

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Knight Foundation Awards

June 23, 2011 Data

The Knight Foundation announced 16 winners of its news challenge. Interesting theme that emerged was the the “rise of the hacker/data journalist.” Several of the winners had or were developing technological tools. There were also a couple emphasizing governmental data.

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Friday Entropy

June 17, 2011 Entropy

Can’t be all data, all the time. So when the spirit moves me and I’m in the requisite darker mood, we’ll post something on entropy. So some people post pictures of their cats on Fridays. Nothing against cats here. I’ve lived with several myself (and I wouldn’t dare suggest that I owned them). Here’s a […]

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