Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg in a still from the upcoming Julian Assange biopic “The Fifth Estate”.
I’m sure the Wikileaks Twitter account is currently raging about how Benedict Cumberbatch looks nothing like Assange.
If this image of a word cloud makes you angry, we have the article for you. (thanks Charles Apple)
OK, this isn’t nearly as sexy as, say, EveryBlock or the Sunlight Foundation. But throwing records of the past decade of crimes online represents a new era of transparency for a famously-guarded city. Or as Brett Goldstein, the city’s chief data officer and former police officer, puts it: “It’s a whole new era of openness and transparency. You determine your own analysis.” And on top of that, EveryBlock could totally plug into this database if they wanted to. Some have been a bit critical of what isn’t in the data — race, for example — but many analysts note that this is more than a lot of cities offer. You done good, Rahm! source
The space shuttle era comes to a close with the landing of Atlantis this week. View this infographic and timeline of the history and interesting facts and stats of the shuttle program:
Where the public gets its news
The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82% as recently as 2002.
So, the Sunlight Foundation has a Tumblr. You should follow. They’re one of the groups really, truly serious about transparency in journalism, and in providing tools for journalists to more easily parse the confusing data coming out of DC and elsewhere. We’re fans. :) You should be too.
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