The problem with Newspapers

The problem with newspapers may not be the 'news' maybe it's the 'paper'.



'For the Wall Street Journal's 10th annual Tech Innovation Awards, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute received the Gold award for its technology to make paper-thin computer screens with a twist'.

These new flex screens once brought to market, could replace the 'paper' in newspaper.

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Publishflow API Upgrade

We just released the latest version of the publishflow™ API - version 1.2.

Our new and improved API will now give you the tools you need to access your publications audience trends, behaviors and revenues. You can connect to our API using a simple HTTP POST or HTTP GET. The data is then returned to you in either JSON or XML format. This gives you the most flexibility to connect to us however you like and get data back in a form that's going to be very quick and easy for you to work with.

There are three sets of functions currently covered by our API:

• Realtime data for top stories, authors and categories
• Analysis of authors, platforms, categories, locales and referrers
• Analysis of individual media items

In order to begin working with the publishflow™ API you will require the following:

• An active account
• Developer ID provided by us
• A working knowledge of network programming using a web friendly language like PHP, Python, Java or Ruby

If you are an active developer using the API you should not notice any difference since it is backward compatible to previous releases - but there are new method calls.

Check out the API for more details.

Journalism and Data Visualization

We came across this really interesting documentary on data visualization and the evolving use of info graphics in journalism and thought it was worth sharing.


Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.