"For one, there's an undercurrent of a siege mentality in journalism right now, with newsrooms cutting staff and print operations frozen stiff in the headlights of the internet. The focus on narrative and story gives a softer edge and an escape valve, though - this group is not primarily a tech-driven community, but they catch on to new developments quickly and bend them into the service of storytelling." Interesting round-up from Mike, particularly with respect to the NYT's election coverage.

"Google has to search through those blobs of stories to pull out that raw data again, thus undoing the work of the journalist. The two need to meet in the middle, argues Holovaty." More data-driven journalism stuff; all spot on, really.

"...what exemplars like Dopplr and Fire Eagle demonstrate beautifully is [that]... the seams between systems are as important to the way a service is ultimately experienced as the more obvious interface between system and human user."

Luke Wroblewski examines and illustrates ways to architect tabular display of data. Some clear thinking, and good illustration.