I came across this article on medium.com on how the field of data journalism has evolved over the last ten years. It is an interview with Simon Rogers, a data editor at Google News Lab. He started out at the Guardian newspaper of London in 2009 as the founder of their data blog. He hadContinue reading “Happy 10th Birthday for Data Journalism”
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Creative Nonfiction Awards
While I have still been getting responses to my online poll (36 responses so far) I have been writing on my blog and working on my book about Johnstown. I saw a post on Facebook about the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction and Essay Contest The essay writing contest was of interest to me. AccordingContinue reading “Creative Nonfiction Awards”
Comparing Google Analytics to Statcounter
Since 2011 I used web traffic analytics websites to track the traffic on this site. Blogger has a built in traffic monitor that doesn’t filter out bots that inflate the web traffic estimates. I also use Google Analytics and Statcounter. Google Adsense also measures web traffic to determine ad revenue. I thought I would takeContinue reading “Comparing Google Analytics to Statcounter”
A Look at My Blogosphere
Three weeks ago a member of a wrtiers group on Facebook posted this image asking “Who (in this group) is a blogger?” The post received over 630 comments with 206 unique blogs listed. I thought I would take a look at the blogs listed to see what kind of platforms that they used (WordPress vs.Continue reading “A Look at My Blogosphere”
Eighth Anniversary Post, Time for a Change
It has been a turbulent year for me with moving and other responsibilities. Since my last anniversary post I have written 27 posts here compared to 41 posts the year before, a 52% decrease. The decrease in posts is reflected in a 19% decrease in traffic. This discrepancy in the traffic and the posts suggestsContinue reading “Eighth Anniversary Post, Time for a Change”
Seven Years of CSIwoDB
Usually for my anniversary posts I look at the web traffic statistics for the site. This year I thought I would take stock of where the blog is and where it will go. Seven years ago I began the blog by conducting data driven journalism before I had even heard of the term. This yearContinue reading “Seven Years of CSIwoDB”
Comparing the 6th Year of CSI wo Dead Bodies to the 5th: More Engagement from Russia
For my 6th anniversary post, instead of just listing my most popular posts, I thought I would take a look at how traffic to the site has changed over the past year (9/29/2015 to 9/28/2016) compared to the previous year (9/29/2014 to 9/28/2015). The measures I chose are listed in the Google Analytics output belowContinue reading “Comparing the 6th Year of CSI wo Dead Bodies to the 5th: More Engagement from Russia”
Podcamp Pittsburgh XI
After a four year hiatus, I will be presenting at Podcamp Pittsburgh. For those of you who do not know PodCamp is a social media conference where practitioners share their tricks of the trade. It is on Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and 14 and will be held at Point Park University from 9 toContinue reading “Podcamp Pittsburgh XI”
My Raging Chicken Press Interview
I was interviewed on a Pennsylvania progressive podcast called Raging Chicken Press on recent posts on this blog related to the election and the concentration of hate groups in Pennsylvania and the US. The audio podcast is above and the youtube video of it can be seen below. It was conducted at a coffeeContinue reading “My Raging Chicken Press Interview”
I Know I’ve Been Away
I’ve been busy with teaching and working. There have been lots of things to blog about but a lot of these things, ISIS, health care, the election, and immigration are things I’ve written about before. I haven’t written as much on topics related to Ferguson, Missouri and racism. I missed PodCamp this year because IContinue reading “I Know I’ve Been Away”