DataMiningbyJoeyBaker

May 31 2010

Facebook's Problem isn't Privacy, It's Lack of Initiative

All the fuss about privacy is distracting us from the more important issue: Facebook has broken the social contract to turn our freely given data into something more valuable.

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March 19 2009

Newsflow: How Journalism Is and Will Be Generated

After taking a look at Steve Johnson’s, co-founder of outside.in, speech from SXSW on the state of the news industry, I think this ideas are sound, but the details are too general.I’ve expanded on this thinking in a chart, Newsflow, to show the relationship between consumers, data, crowdsourcing and journalists. Continue reading →

January 5 2009

Links for January 5th

These are my links for January 5th L.A. County restaurant health inspection scores – Los Angeles Times – It’s not pretty, but it’s a really good example of a newspaper looking to use their site as a platform and providing … Continue reading →