Yet another great speaker on Thursday! Adrian Holovaty has one of the most unique positions I've ever heard of at The Washington Post in DC. Adrian is a very young and ambitious programmer for The Post's online site. His official title is Editor of Editorial Innovation. What he does, what he is able to do, scares most in his field.
Adrian believes that journalist's throw away way too much information! He says journalists gather information, create a piece of art with that information which he calls a blob (a story), publish the information, and then let it disappear. Adrian advocates a new wave of journalism in which journalists save the data after they compose a story and enter it into automated programs. The databases will be dedicated to all areas of life, crime, sports, video games, politics, births, weddings, obituaries, and so on.
Adrian's job is to literally create these programs and advocate the use of the databases. What is so amazing about what this new style of journalism can create? Check out these web pages that Adrian has created! www.washingtonpost.com/fallen and http://www.chicagocrime.org/. They truly provide information and present stories in a new way. Most of the pages on these sights are never touched by Adrian or any other human. Scary? Maybe just darn right amazing!
Another great class!
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