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January 28, 2009 at 9:09 a.m.
Steve Yelvington talks about being a local expert. This pushes farther a concept Jeff Jarvis advanced a few months back: The building block of journalism is no longer the article. Matt at Newsless describes this as systematic knowledge accumulation (he's talking about within journalism, in this case, but I think it's applicable here).
Let's think about what that might look like a bit. For a given topic or issue, I might want to pull together:
- News articles
- Blog posts
- Forum topics
- Links to other places talking about the issue
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Profiles of people who show up ...
The trouble with counting people in China
May 28, 2008 at 9:03 a.m.
A while back, I tried to answer a simple question people often asked me about Dalian: How many people live there?
Simple question, tough answer. Alex found a good dataset, which we put on DalianDalian. Well, the question has come back.
I'm writing a cover story on real estate in China's second-tier cities for an investment newsletter, and as part of the project, I've decided to compile a database of locales, most of which people outside of China have likely never heard (admittedly, there are some I couldn't have put on a map before starting this ...
