The Scoop

Adrian shutters ChicagoCrime.org. For journalists, it became an important benchmark and a source of inspiration for our own efforts to present crime data online. Even when I hear people say, “I want to do something different than ChicagoCrime,” it signals the influence it has had.

Best Methodology Ever from the Portland Press Herald, which published a series on dangerous drivers earlier this month: How we did it: Research, lots of math. Yep, two of the mainstays.

This is why newspapers have to hire developers. Vendors are fine, but you have to have some capacity to build things that vendors don’t do.

A couple additions to DOCS: each source page (example) now has a list of topics covered and a byline list. Still tinkering with both of those – might do some kind of weighting/tag-cloudish stuff.

Caspio apparently doesn’t leave comments anymore on sites that express a critical opinion of it. Wonder why?