The San Francisco Police Department has recently launched a new initiative to fight drug dealing near schools. As outlined in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle last Thursday, the police department is targeting drug dealers within 1,000 feet of San Francisco schools who are dealing heroin, crack, or methamphetamine during school hours . . . The following video walks through how quickly we were able to use SpatialKey to filter down over 14,000 crime records from the past 90 days to isolate these exact drug crimes.
- Nathan Gibbs
From blogs to vlogs, Facebook to MySpace, Twitter to Flickr, del.i.cious to reddit, words and images bounce around the globe, spreading wide and fast. Journalists are adapting to the ever-shifting terrain carved out of these conversations. In this issue they describe changes in how they work and what they produce, explore emerging ethical issues, and propose principles of active engagement. In Words & Reflections, essays touch on foreign news reporting, Afghanistan, netroots, objectivity, journalists’ political leanings, and Cold War spies. – Melissa Ludtke, Editor
- Nathan Gibbs
The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public's capacity to empathize with animals and plants.
- Nathan Gibbs
"Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might."
- Nathan Gibbs
Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online. Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.
- Nathan Gibbs