That’s what the Manchester Evening News are proposing to do. They’re using CoverItLive. Here’s their coverage of Trafford Council meeting on the 2nd December.
Now I’ve used CoverItLive a few times and its settings (if I recall correctly) can and usually do pick up anyone’s tweets. How long before Councillors cop on to this? And local [...]
Posts on ‘December 24th, 2009’
Liveblogging council meetings
Illustrating data (again)
It’s Christmas. That means that you have to indulge bloggers in their little obsessions.
Mine is an interest in the way that data can be presented in a way that changes our perception of an issue and clarifies a problem.
This one, for instance from Good Magazine:
You can zoom around and explore it here. (Via Information is [...]
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