{"id":1054,"date":"2008-06-24T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2008-06-30T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:58:19","slug":"data-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/data-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Data is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>ome in journalism wonder if the story as an aggregate of verbal fact and reaction is losing its hold (See Kevin Marsh<\/strong> – The Story Is Dead<\/a>). Now Brad King<\/strong> has weighed in with an interesting contribution – 5 Reasons The Story Is Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The whole Web is run with databases. The cleaner the data, better the information. We have become a society that expects and demands access to raw data \u2014 with really good software tools that let us manipulate that data \u2014 to give us the answers that we need.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me? Don\u2019t use Google for a week. No Google Maps. No Fandango or MovieFone. No Travelocity. No online banking. No Excel or financial spreadsheets.<\/p>\n

Now try not reading a newspaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Journalism never competed with these things. It merely traded off the social transaction value of people, things, and events in a world of limited choice.<\/p>\n

I found out George Carlin had passed away through a Twitter post, logged on to MySpace to see what my friends had said and then watched his old routines on YouTube while I was reading Wikipedia about his life.<\/p>\n

I still haven\u2019t visited a newspaper site because I have no desire to read some reported story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does that mean stories are dead? In fact consider the opposite argument. Data is dead. Take a peep at Adrian Holovaty<\/strong>‘s EveryBlock<\/a>. Every number tells a tale. But it tells it like the flat data it is. It’s dull. I admire it, but what’s the story? I love databases and information, and I think it’s important that more be made publicly available.<\/p>\n

But who speaks for and uncovers the data? And what mobilises us around facts and their interpretation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some in journalism wonder if the story as an aggregate of verbal fact and reaction is losing its hold (See Kevin Marsh – The Story Is Dead). Now Brad King has weighed in with an interesting contribution – 5 Reasons The Story Is Dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1465,1468,1469,1466,211,1467,1470,258],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-adrian-holovaty","tag-brad-king","tag-george-carlin","tag-good-software-tools","tag-google","tag-kevin-marsh","tag-newspaper-site","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}