Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-27

Now corporations get the open data treatment http://j.mp/eABJOP – about time too! Well done Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon #opendata #
British government wants all porn filtered out of the web, all fun sucked out of life http://j.mp/dTvWdZ #
Media and communication studies interventions and intersections http://j.mp/gkJTom – edited collection from ECREA, available as PDF for free #
Journalism and New Media: our new MA degree at Bournemouth University http://j.mp/dL9Ywk – your thoughts/comments/applications welcome #
@noodlepie depends on what you read into "new". Using it here as a concept rather than a specific tech. Similarly everything is "digital". #
@noodlepie difficult distinction to make I think. Step one is to become normalised part of news discourse, e.g. Twitter not needing defining #
@noodlepie but from that to no longer being "new" I suspect is a much more difficult and perhaps generational distinction. #
@noodlepie … though a transition that is getting increasingly quicker as technology and its forms of use change more rapidly. #
StatSheet: automated journalism for sports http://j.mp/i626Bz – datajournalism taken to the next level? #
@henrikornebring thanks for link. Interesting projects, but slightly scary prospects for the type of "journalism" it might output. #
@henrikornebring lol, yes, you're perhaps on to something there 😉 #