Tag Archive: Wired

Weekly Media Roundup – May 22, 2009

by Mike Smith May 22, 2009 2:59 pm

Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article

Weekly Media Roundup – April 17, 2009

by Mike Smith Apr 17, 2009 12:47 pm

Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article

Weekly Media Roundup – April 13, 2009

by Mike Smith Apr 13, 2009 3:21 pm

Each weekday, Sunlight’s communications team collects all the press mentions of Sunlight and of our grantees. Instead of just keeping... View Article

The Feds and Social Media II

by Ellen Miller Mar 27, 2009 10:09 am

Here’s an exciting development! Last week, I blogged about an encouraging report by Doug Belzer at Federal Computer Week, where... View Article

Wired’s Wiki

by Ellen Miller Mar 8, 2009 8:09 pm

Midnight tonight (Eastern Time), Wired is officially launching “Data.gov Is Coming — Let’s Help Build It,” a wiki designed to... View Article

Transparency’s Stimulus

by Ellen Miller Feb 18, 2009 4:22 pm

Evan Ratcliff, writing at Wired, has an interesting take on the Stimulus Bill. He proposes that the government’s act of ... View Article

At Wired magazine, Tim McKeough has pulled together a fascinating and beautiful slide show he titled "Frame that Spam! Data-Crunching Artists Transform the World of Information" where he displays the works of a new crop of data-crunching "artists" who are using data the same way "Picasso applied paint." The artists used blog posts, traffic patterns, government reports digital video, and email to transform "the world of information into mesmerizing abstractions."

These pieces of art and graphic design are amazingly beautiful, but they aren't just "eye candy," as McKeough writes. The artists used census data, NASA images, and even human emotion samples from the blogosphere to display the information in an interactive and insightful manner. And it's only the beginning of what the Web 2.0 revolution will do with information as it evolves.

Check it out.

The Wisdom of Crowds: Political Reporting Style

by Ellen Miller Mar 27, 2007 10:56 am

Arianna Huffington is entering the world of citizen journalism with her announcement of a new project: The Wisdom of Crowds Hits the Campaign Trail. It's got the makings of a great effort: she's recruiting citizen journalists from around the country to cover the major presidential candidates and asking each of them to contribute to a candidate-specific group blog -- offering written updates, campaign tidbits, on-the-scene observations, photos, or original video. The goal is to provide more sources of information, and more outside-the-mainstream voices on the upcoming presidential campaign. She's got the readership to make it happen.

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