TimeSpace Beta is a new map and timeline from washingtonpost.com that allows users to navigate through hundreds of photos, video, articles, tweets, posts and audio related to the national election from around the country.
Newspapers create public notices Web site
South Dakota’s weekly and daily newspapers have created a free, text-searchable Web site that includes thousands of government public notices from across the state, The Brookings Register reports. The site, www.sdpublicnotices.com, is a database of public notices such as the minutes of school boards, city councils and county commissions. Once the public notices are published [...]
American Public Media’s Budget Hero game
The Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media has launched a great new game, Budget Hero, which lets people decide how taxpayer dollars should be spent and focuses on the major issues in the 2008 election – like the war in Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, expanding health care, and stimulating the economy.
Behind the scenes: Interactive town meeting map
New Hampshire Public Radio has launched a smart experiment that gives the town meeting tradition a digital twist, creating an interactive Town Meeting Map for this week’s ballot initiatives. The map includes information that individual towns submitted and related discussions, and so far about 100 of the state’s 200 towns are participating. Jon Greenberg, Executive [...]
