Bookmarks for 24 Jun 2009
- Guardian: “MP paler than we might have led you to believe” « Foibles
Oh dear… "The Guardian hit on an ingenious way to speed things up when searching through the MPs expense documents released last week in response to FoI requests: get the readers to do it (or “crowdsourcing,” if we’re being polite). [...] Great idea! However, it would probaby have been wise to subject anything that cropped up through this process to rather more rigourous scrutiny than has actually been employed. One diligant Guardian website user, going by the name “Pigsaw,” spotted the followng in the expense documents for Adrian Bailey, MP for West Bromich West…" (mps_expenses guardian crowdsourcing ) - Let's make the web faster – Google Code
"There are plenty of ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are going to be useful for other web developers." (performance google presentation web_development ) - Presentation Files: Velocity 2009 – O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 – 24, 2009, San Jose, CA
Slides from speakers at the O'Reilly Velocity conference. (performance web_development presentation conference ) - Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade. They’ve had a team of professional journalists on the job for a month, slamming out a string of blockbuster stories as they find them in their huge stack of secrets.How do you catch up?" (guardian crowdsourcing journalism mps_expenses )
- Telegraph.co.uk: MP's expenses
Searchable database of MPs' expenses, from the people who bought the data. (telegraph politics data database mps_expenses ) - Twitterers claim victory over loaded Daily Mail gypsy poll | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
"The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue”, attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition." (twitter daily_mail journalism )
