Comments on: Data is dead

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:44:51 +0000

@Paul - turn the aircon up!

By: Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:43:12 +0000

I thought you was talking about Data from Star Trek !

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:16:28 +0000

@Tom - Marc does teach part-time to undergraduates taking journalism and social science.

@Brad - I’ll check it out.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:12:24 +0000

Hey Adrian:

First thanks for reading my post and chatting about it. I’m glad it got you thinking.

I would be careful arguing that data is dead because the entire Web — everything — is run by data and databases. Much of it parsed by machines (think Google or Amazon).

That said, I agree wholeheartedly with your point that people — particularly in journalism — will be the ones creating databases and giving some perspective to them (although that is only part of their job, I think).

I don’t want to be all “read my bloggy”, but the piece you read is only part of the story. The next thing I wrote was how to write a modern news story.

So I don’t believe the story is dead — but I do believe the newspaper story as we know it is dead.

By: tom hall

tom hall — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:43:57 +0000

Sorry - off topic - but I notice Marc Wadsworth, the man responsible for the McGrath resignation, is one of your team of lecturers. Do you agree with Wadsworth’s misleading headline policy over at his blog? I hope he isn’t passing his pisspoor jorunalistic standards on to a new generation. Frankly, I’d say having this bloke on the faculty seriously brings your institution into disrepute.