Kicking Off the Grant Process With Monitoring and Evaluation
Co-author: Aaron PresnallWe at the Jefferson Institute began our experience as a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner with one of the more exciting and misunderstood elements of the grant cycle:...
View ArticleThe Challenge for Non-Profit News Organizations
Non-profit status is often cited as an exciting new option for struggling local news outlets. ProPublica, MinnPost, and the Voice of San Diego are inspiring examples of non-profit startups, while the...
View Article'Anarconomy' and the News Industry
A good friend of mine forwarded me this essay (PDF) from the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, which presents an important set of ideas. Although it belittles intellectual property using straw...
View ArticleA New Battle Cry: Raw Data Now
The most elegant, user-friendly data visualization program is useless without data to visualize; and, historically, those who possess data are reluctant to share it.Massive data has been dominated by a...
View ArticleVisualizing Cyber Insecurity
Cyber-security will be the new big obsession of our various security services for the next half century -- an obsession on par with the human and material resources that went into the nuclear threat in...
View ArticleVIDI Toolkit Makes Data Visualization Easy
You will love our powerful, intuitive Knight-funded data visualization toolkit: "VIDI". Go to the website and try it out!The site includes Drupal modules and a playground where you can work with...
View ArticlePatchwork Nation Relaunches in Drupal with District Layer
This year's primary election upsets in Alaska, Florida and Utah and the volatile Congressional campaigns currently underway -- all of which take place amid widespread voter discontent and the rise of...
View ArticlePartners for Digital Stewardship: 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA
The 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting of the Library of Congress assembled for the 6th time, this summer under the theme “Improvisations on the Stewardship of Digital Information.”The Jefferson...
View ArticleKnight News Challenge Evaluations Released: Jefferson Project in Top of Class
The Jefferson Institute DataViz project VIDI, a 2009 Knight Foundation News Challenge winner, joins Ushahidi and DocumentCloud as the three most successful projects of its class. That is some awesome...
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