adrian monck

Author: Adrian Monck

  • Visualizing international relations

    If you are interested in social networks, you’ll likely be familiar with the work of Valdis Krebs who modelled relationships between the 9/11 terror cells. He’s turned his attention to international relations and the results are available on his site.Whatever you think of his political alignments (Al Qaeda is directly linked to Hamas), it is…

  • Independent investigations

    When will someone not in receipt of a BBC pension conduct an ‘independent’ investigation? [Guardian]

  • Tag clouding Gordon Brown

    Ever wondered what Gordon Brown’s buzz words were? Here’s a great new tool to show you exactly what’s on the mind of Britain’s new prime minister [Hat tip: Aron Pilhofer]: This is a one-word tag cloud of his speeches to date, all thanks to a great visualization tool called many eyes. A two-word cloud lets…

  • Seymour Hersh

    Seymour Hersh gave today’s keynote at the investigative journalism summer school. His only stipulation? Off the record. Still what I can say is that investigative journalism keeps you pretty spry…and if you want an indication of the way he thinks, this is from the New Yorker in 2005.