Check out this great round up of data driven stories put together by the Guardian.co.uk
(via futurejournalismproject)
Source: Guardian
Basil Al-Sayed, Who Chronicled The Syrian Uprising, Is Dead.
From NPR:
This was the last thing Basil al-Sayed, a citizen journalist in Syria, filmed before he was shot in the head by security forces:
According to activist Rami Jarrah, yesterday, al-Sayed succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in the restive city of Homs. He was 24.
“We have thousands of citizen journalists,” Jarrah told NPR’s Deb Amos. “But Basil was one of those who stood out.”
Jarrah said al-Sayed filmed security forces opening fire directly at protesters, and that put him at serious risk.
“He was documenting stuff that no one could actually get hold of,” Jarrah said. “I don’t want to say this was expected, but he was always in those situations where you could expect something would happen to him.”….
Foreign journalists have been mostly banned from entering Syria since a popular uprising against the rule of President Bashar Assad began in the country 10 months ago. In many cases, the videos uploaded to YouTube by citizen journalists have been the only way for the outside world to see the clashes that have cost more than 5,000 people their lives in Syria.
Hoy, quienes dan a conocer la injusticia son acribillados, mientras quienes tienen en la ruina a la humanidad se regocijan cada día en sus fortunas bañadas en sangre.
(via futurejournalismproject)
Source: NPR
Friend Him: Isaac Newton is now Online
The University of Cambridge has begun the process of posting its Sir Isaac Newton collection online. The digital library includes his college notebooks to later sketches, musings and drawings from his work on gravity, mathematics and optics.
Via the University of Cambridge:
The project aims to make Cambridge a digital library for the world and will move on from Newton to some of the University Library’s other world-class collections in the realms of science and faith. These include the archive of the celebrated Board of Longitude and the papers of Charles Darwin…
…Launching the website with more than 4,000 pages of its most important Newton material, the University Library will upload thousands of further pages over the next few months until almost all of its Newton collection is available to view and download anywhere in the world…
…In opening up Newton’s papers to the eyes of the world, the newly digitised archive reveals that not all his peers would have approved of his output being shared quite so openly.
Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had been asked to go through Newton’s papers after his death and decide which ones should be published.
Of course, if Newton and Pellet knew then what we know now, nothing created quite remains private.
Source: futurejournalismproject
Número de tweets por minuto relacionados con las elecciones en España. Hashtag principal: #20N (20 de Noviembre).
“What do we care about a stupid sugar cube sucking up some stupid coffee? Nothing… unless we are, for a moment, in our heroine’s world. She dips a sugar cube in her coffee and focuses on it to reject the offer that the man who loves her just made her. (This man was once her lover.) She wants to reject this offer, forget this man, and forget the music that doesn’t stop because this music reminds her of something she denies. And when you ask me if I think about the viewer, about the viewer’s point of view—-I go back to this stupid sugar cube—-I try always to keep this in mind. […]
The sugar cube has fallen, the coffee is spilled, and the heroine approaches the musician. There is dialogue in which she learns that different people in different places of the world, but at the same time, think about the same things. This theme is almost an obsession—people, in different places, and for various reasons, thinking about the same thing. I said that I was trying to talk about things that unite people. It’s the case for this feeling and this music. All these notes exist, scattered somewhere, waiting for the one who will assemble them, put them in order. The fact that different men, at different moments, at different places, with a different social status, can assemble these notes in the same way is, to me, a sign of what unites all men.”
—Krzysztof Kieslowski
Source: eustacethemonk
Source: untitl
Ceiling of the Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona, right now. Waiting for Mr Sakamoto to appear onstage and blow our heads off. #music #venue #japan #theatre #barcelona #concert #architecture (Taken with instagram)
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Eduardo Graells, phD student @ Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
