Analyze This

The Long Tail was just released this month. It seems like it has been out forever. The seminal article in Wired appeared almost two years ago. The ideas have been publicized almost daily on Chris Anderson’s blog. And yet the book is well worth reading: Gladwell-esque in its energy and clarity, with details that haven’t [...]

The Washington Post’s Adrian Holovaty on web programming as journalism:
The way I see it, there are three basic tasks that journalists do:
1. Gathering information. This involves talking to sources, examining documents, taking photographs, etc. It’s reporting.
2. Distilling information. This involves applying editorial judgment to decide what parts of the gathered information are important and relevant.
3. [...]