Read: The Black Box system for organizing a story – American Press Institute (great how-to on writing a news story)

Read The Black Box system for organizing a story – American Press Institute

Len Reed, environment and science team leader at The Oregonian, developed a system to help reporters handle unruly information. The Black Box helps reporters sort through and prioritize the information they have and quickly and clearly make the case for their stories to editors. With the system, writing a story is essentially boiled into four …

The earlier link is a great description of what journalism is, this link is a great description of how to do journalism.

Read: The elements of journalism – American Press Institute

Read The elements of journalism – American Press Institute

In their book The Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel identify the essential principles and practices of journalism. Here are 10 elements common to good journalism, drawn from the book. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth Good decision-making depends on people having reliable, accurate facts put in a meaningful context. Journalism does …

Read More Than Ten Free Hosted Jupyter Notebook Environments You Can Try Right Now by Tony Hirst

Looking for a free, online Jupyter notebook server? Here are some you can try right now… Generic Environments Azure Notebooks Google Colab Watson Studio Cloud Research Publishing / Environments CodeOcean Kogence DataSci / ML Environments Kyso ModeAnalytics Quantopian Training / Education Environme…

via Stephen Downes, I have wanted to find out more about Jupyter for a while, but have not been able to make myself make time to do this. However, knowing that there is some environment that I can use that is already set up may reduce the friction…we shall see….

Read Collaborative resource curation by Jon Udell

Recently we decided to keep better track of tweets, blog posts, and other web resources that mention and discuss our product. There are two common ways to do that: send links to a list maintainer, or co-edit a shared list of links. Here’s a third way, less common but arguably more powerful and flexible: tag

via Chris Aldrich, Jon Udell talks about the use of tagging posts as curation. I have never gotten into the habit of adding tags to posts, but this is increasing my desire to do so. I may need to play with Pinboard a little bit to get a better feel for the benefits…