I get a feeling whenever I travel, and I can’t really place it, but it persists no matter where I go or how often I’ve been somewhere…
It’s been an astonishingly long time since I wrote a personal blog entry. I think in between moving to London, getting my degree and then…
This is the portfolio post to accompany my Tumblog post about my previous year at The Times and Sunday Times. Go here to read my more…
It’s been a long time in coming, but I’ve finally migrated from Drupal 7 to the static HTML-generating powerhouse that is Octopress. This is…
The reason I created OpenMusicFestival in the first place was so that I could migrate MotionNotion.com from WordPress (And its…
After Minehost went belly-up, the communal Minecraft server I played on went dead —and stayed dead — for about 6 months. However, I have…
Over the last few months working with Drupal, I’ve wanted to become a more productive member of the community. To that end, I’ve been…
OpenMusicFestival is a Drupal distribution enabling music festivals of all sizes to create a rich, semantically-enabled website…
I’m trying to start a group on G.D.O dedicated to visualization with Drupal . We need more members and activity before being promoted to a…
In my ongoing quest to make a non-Java-based ManyEyes clone, I have launched VizCloud, a Drupal distribution intended to allow simple…
Use Koding.com ? Want to install Drupal — with Drush — really easily? Now you can, with my snazzy new Drupal Installer app. Just add it to…
For another treemap I did for The Economist , I mapped dependency of how exposed various S&P500 companies are to declining investment in…
For a project I did for the Economist, I created a treemap script that could be easily updated via Google Spreadsheets every day, allowing a…
For my MA project, I compiled a massive database of popular outdoor British music festivals and cross-referenced that with Met Office…
I found this particularly illuminating: I think a lot of the criminal justice legislation of recent years has been a response to popular…
This is the blog and portfolio of Ændrew Rininsland, London-based Canadian expat multinerd. I use Google+ . Woo. (This is mainly a…
Londoners collectively spent an estimated 36 million hours waiting for late buses in 2011, data revealed through FOI has shown. That means…
n0tice is a hyperlocal, community-driven news, events and classifieds website brought to you by The Guardian . This plugin is designed to…
Note: I wasn’t able to attend the second revision section, but listened through the audio recording on Moodle. Media law Examination 2011 N…
Note: These may be somewhat scattered and incomplete, same caveat with all my notes — Battle moves really quickly through this stuff. Also…
The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to…
The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to…
The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to…
The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to…
Is WordPress being sofa kingdom by returning Error 404 for custom taxonomies, or doesn’t recognize taxonomy-{name}.php template files in…
My fourth article for PC Pro discussed a report put out by environmental group Greenpeace, which argued for using cleaner energy for cloud…
My third article for PC Pro looked at the looming mobile device chip shortage at maker Qualcomm. {Launch (same window)} {Launch (new tab…
My second article for PC Pro discussed the new “defence only” agreement Twitter created with its developers. {Launch (same window)} {Launch…
One of my first projects for the Guardian Data Store was using linked data to constructed a hierarchical graph of Golden Raspberry Award…
My first article on the PC Pro website discussed a new variant of the Flashback exploit that was targeting Macs at the time. {Launch (same…
For a Guardian series on the openness of the Internet, I helped with building a data set that fed into the interactive below. I also wrote…
I’ve recently been playing with the semantic web (for the uninitiated, the semantic web is a structuring of web content in terms of what it…
For the Guardian’s London 2012 municipal election, I did a writeup about how different boroughs compared in terms of health indicators…
Disclaimer: this may have changed in more recent versions of BuddyPress, so your mileage may very substantially. Please let me know if…
To coincide with the release of a UN report on asylum seekers, I built two interactive maps showing change over previous year, both in terms…
For exam 30 multi-choice questions; Know the names and intent of provisions; know case names. Important cases Flood v. Times Newspapers Ltd…
From last week: Section 4(2) — postponement order. Allows postpone publication of proceedings. Not forever. For avoiding a substantial risk…
Questions from last week: Talking to people in hospital? Must identify as a journalist and get permission from hospital authorities. What’s…
Answers from last week: What is the watershed? 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., more adult content is allowed. Not allowed outside of that span in order to…
A couple friends and I run a laid-back survival Minecraft server at podsix.minehost.org . Feel free to connect if you want to check out…
Questions from last week: What is a §39 order? Court can make an order to prevent the identification of person aged 17 and younger involved…
From last week Reynolds Defence: Defence of responsible journalism on matters of real public interest. Pg. 257 of Quinn 10 step procedure…
For next class — Ch. 20 Libel, cont’d Quiz of the week: What is the Reynolds Defence? What are the ten factors? What is the offer of amends…
Who can sue? Individuals Not the dead However, complaint can be brought via PCC or Ofcom. Groups of individuals Who is reasonably…
Entrepreneurial Journalism — “Journalism in the age of disruption” Disruption — interruption of normal work and practices. If it displaces…
Having a plan can prove the objectives behind a social media strategy, as well as a way to measure progress. Allows you to: Discover and…
I’ve written a post for the City Interhacktives’ “It all started online” year in review series, discussing social media usage for the Occupy…
UPDATED: Now allows you to filter based on a comma-separated list of wards! More accurate application geolocation data based on eastings…
First article in the Hackney Citizen , “Houseboaters being ‘forced out’ from Olympics area.” It was cover of the January 2012 issue…
As part of a project I’m working on for the Hackney Citizen , I’m creating a comprehensive map of a lot of different stuff going on in…
The UNODC’s yearly World Drug Report is always a fun piece of data to play with. For my data journalism course, I’ve used some of their…
“Anything that tends to lower the reputation of an individual amongst right thinking people or damages them in their trade or profession…
Missed questions for this/last week. Did you get them? Post in comments, please! Who is a child? 17 and below (in civil court and criminal…
…Well, maybe next week we’ll have a meeting at the scheduled time? Due to Greenslade cancelling his Monday lecture, we bumped up our meeting…
A bit about Demotix… Background is politics and freelancing Desire to create not just a socially-responsible business, but a “actively good…
Questions from last week: Section 39 order — to surpress publication about details of a youth. Automatic ban in Youth Court. PACE — Police…
Where are the most trafficking arrests in London? Where are the most possession arrests? While Tower Hamlets has the most charges for…
Internships “The more clear you are about what you’re wanting to get out of an internship, the more likely it is you’ll get something useful…
UPDATE: there’s no Greenslade lecture today (Nov. 14); today’s meeting is thus moved to 3:00 p.m. First off, sorry to anyone frustrated with…
Community management becoming more and more important Makes sites: sticky and engaged Makes information collection: distributed Community…
Answers from last week: Jigsaw identification — individual identifiable even though name not explicitly given, i.e., through multiple pieces…
Just a quick City University London Journalism Technology Exploration Group (CULJTEG) update — last week was supposed to be our first…
Long-term trend towards rise of government and public sector research Increased emphasis on evidence-based policymaking consultation policy…
Q’s for next week: What is jigsaw identification? What are the rules on sketching court proceedings? What is the CPS Media Protocol? What…
An FOI request is like a journey… It’s a many-step process, and while it might not go entirely smoothly, the more planning you do, the…
Scraping Tools: OutWit Hub Needlebase Scraperwiki Google Spreadsheets Formulae Walkthru using Google Docs (=import) Open a spreadsheet In A…
Robin Hamman, Director of Digital, Edelman (London) Visiting Fellow of Journalism, City If you ask general questions, the responses tend to…
Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford with… John Kay, chief reporter, The Sun Qualities: Dogged determination Ability to think on feet at…
Why are sources important, and how does one deal with them? Sources are sources for a reason — they know things the rest of the world doesn…
Update: Sun., October 30. First meeting Tues., November 1st at Saddlers Bar on campus! There’s been a bit of interest, but I’m still looking…
To preface this, I’ve never liveblogged a lecture and figure this would be a good place to start. Note that my Macbook Pro is getting old…
Good data journalism ultimately makes a story more accessible to an audience, and ties together threads one might not normally see. Here are…
I have way too much social media property, and it’s all set up in such a way that I’m never quite sure what’s going to go where, or whether…
Interesting topics: Photography in court — in Britain, court sketches only; must be done from memory outside of court. Ken Clarke (sp?) said…
Well, where to begin? I’ve been in London almost two days now, having arrived at around 2:00 p.m. on the 15th. My flight was fantastic…
Something I’ve always done at each major turning point in my life is to write a very long, detailed thank-you note. I wrote this initially…
This blog has admittedly been somewhat inactive the last, well, ever — but especially so recently given I’ve been very much in the process…
A few friends and I have been spending an inordinate amount of time playing Minecraft on a server hosted by somebody I know. Given we’re…
Originally published in the Calgary Herald, Business section, page B1, July 7, 2011. When Gary Watson volunteered to allow Southern Alberta…
Confident in their new skills while venturing into an uncertain labour market, more than 400 Bow Valley College students celebrated…
Originally published in Calgary Herald, City & Region section, page B9, June 23, 2011. Eyesight, for many, is something taken for granted…
Amateur and professional hockey players alike are taking to the streets today, as CBC Hockey Night In Canada’s Play On! 4-on-4 street hockey…
CALGARY — A pothole brought a new headache to commuters heading northbound on Deerfoot Trail this morning. The pothole, in the left-hand…
When University of Calgary geoscience professor Dr. Leslie Reid started teaching a decade ago, little did she know what the future had in…
Those overwhelmed by everything the Greatest Outdoor Show On Earth has to offer will have an extra tool in their planning arsenal this year…
The wet weather on the weekend didn’t deter book lovers from attending the 9th annual Calgary Book Drive and Sale. “We actually had more…
Book lovers will get their first chance to dig through pile after pile of interesting novels, reference books, anthologies and other written…
Another update: While I’m doing increasingly more on Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services and GitHub Pages for content hosting, I feel I…
Welcome to the new ændrew.com. Apologies if it’s a bit barren right now; I’m gradually porting all of my old content from Joomla! 1.5x to…