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Real time network map from CERN
I’ve just finished the last big feature I’ll write before I leave the UK, and it’s been one of the most fun ones I’ve ever done. Trying not to do spoilers, it did involve looking at this real time network topology/NASA map mash up involving data transfers between CERN partners.
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Is Googling a new journalist’s name fair?
Curiously, I’ve read several articles recently by editors looking to employ journalists full time or freelance who’ve said that the first thing they do is search for the applicant’s name and ‘journalist’, and if they aren’t the first link that Google throws up, they’ll delete the application. It came up in the Guardian’s recent web…
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Specialise and innovate
I’ve just returned from Avaya‘s partner conference in Barcelona*, the annual get together for the telecoms vendor and high ranking members of its EMEA supply chain. I don’t, as a general rule, go along to these things often as it’s a long time out of the office, and it’s rarer that I blog about them.…
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Published and be read
Journalism.co.uk has an interesting story up about this man, Michalis Pantelouris, a freelance journalist who had that very familiar problem of knowing he had a good story on his hands, but wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. So he crowdsourced his article about a German singer’s death in Athens, publishing 110 pages of…
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Free training course at the cij
I can’t bang on enough about how good the Centre for Investigative Journalism‘s summer school was, and how much it’s helped to focus my own feelings about my career. So it’s rather excellent news that they’re holding a one-off, free class on the evening of October 13th on the subject ‘How to read public accounts’.…
