Bookmarks for 20 Jun 2009
- Oliver Burkeman on the strange incidence of coincidence | Life and style | The Guardian
Oliver Burkeman nails it…”Well, here’s the thing,” Horace said. “Doesn’t it annoy you how so many self-help gurus, whenever they want to demonstrate the efficacy of their teachings, will present incredibly dubious case studies, featuring people whose lives were purportedly transformed, rapidly and profoundly, by the self-help method in question? People who seem to support the author’s point a little too conveniently? Or who come along at precisely the right moment to illustrate a point?”“I’m glad you mentioned that,” I replied, “because I’d been planning to write about this phenomenon in my column. What a coincidence that you called when you did!” (self_help )
- WhatTheyClaimed.com | Expenses records for UK MPs
“This website has been set up to make details of MPs expenses publically available. This data was published by Parliament on Thursday 18th June 2009.” (crowdsourcing politics mps_expenses tools ) - A 1p mobile phone bill at The good stuff
“Anyway, The Guardian are taking this to a new level by inviting the public to do their journalism for them. On their site we can go through the expenses claims individually and report our findings as a collective. Yet another example of democracy & transparency being pushed to the limits by the net.” (crowdsourcing politics mps_expenses guardian journalism tools data_journalism ) - The Guardian’s tool to crowdsource MPs’ expenses data: time to play | Online Journalism Blog
“So here’s The Guardian’s crowdsourcing tool for MPs’ expenses. If you’ve not already, you should have a play: it’s a dream.” (crowdsourcing politics mps_expenses guardian journalism tools data_journalism )
