[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 38, Issue 8

Mason Inman masoninman at gmail.com
Thu May 1 16:26:33 UTC 2014 

This seems especially timely, with the acquisition of Scroll Kit by
Wordpress, and its impending shut-down.
http://www.scrollkit.com/

I'm looking forward to seeing what StoryBuilder can do!

—Mason


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>    1. Re: StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling
>       stories (Andrew Callaghan)
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> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 14:55:57 +0000
> From: Andrew Callaghan <Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk>
> To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
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> Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like
>         scrolling stories
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> Incredible Service!! A+++
>
> Look forward to testing it out
>
> From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:
> data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro
> Alvarez Ricciardelli
> Sent: 01 May 2014 15:53
> To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
> Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like
> scrolling stories
>
> Great!!!
> ________________________________
> From: ericnbarrett at gmail.com<mailto:ericnbarrett at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 18:19:19 +0400
> To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org<mailto:
> data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like
> scrolling stories
> We have enabled email authentication/login now! I hope that helps non-FB
> users:)
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Joseph Cox <josephfranciscox at gmail.com
> <mailto:josephfranciscox at gmail.com>> wrote:
> This is so cool. Really keen to be updated on this!
>
> On 1 May 2014 11:30, Alvaro Alvarez Ricciardelli <
> carosoalvarez at hotmail.com<mailto:carosoalvarez at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> Looks great!!!
>
> I agree with the facebook thing though, looking forward to log in with an
> email account...
>
> Congrats!!!
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> From: mjaeger at moritzjaeger.de<mailto:mjaeger at moritzjaeger.de>
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:06:15 +0200
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> Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like
> scrolling stories
> This looks really interesting, good work. Please, keep it up.
>
> Moritz Jaeger
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> 2014-05-01 10:52 GMT+02:00 Andrew Callaghan <
> Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk<mailto:
> Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk>>:
> Brilliant Stuff
>
> Actual concept of tool and finished article look fantastic
>
> From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:
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> data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] On Behalf Of
> ericnbarrett at gmail.com<mailto:ericnbarrett at gmail.com>
> Sent: 01 May 2014 09:51
> To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
> Subject: Re: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like
> scrolling stories
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> We are working on non-third-party authentication/login, as well as more
> open authentication options. That should be ready soon. I understand the
> frustration. Our first target audience were Georgians and they all use FB
> here.
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Callaghan <
> Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk<mailto:
> Andrew.Callaghan at knightstone.co.uk>> wrote:
> Disappointing that you can only login with Facebook Sign In
>
> Possible to setup login not connected to other sites, would be great
>
> From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:
> data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org<mailto:
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> Sent: 01 May 2014 07:38
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> Subject: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling
> stories
>
> Dear all,
>
> I know this doesn't technically fall into the real of data journalism, but
> once you are ready to tell the story, it might come in handy.
>
> We at JumpStart Georgia wanted to do similar mixed-media scrolling stories
> like the NYTimes<
> http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/> does. We
> are trying hard to inspire creativity and diversity in the ways Georgians
> tell stories, especially local activists, journalists, and NGOs. We
> initially built this for us and our stories, but decided it would be way
> cool for others to be able to create these types of mixed-media stories
> too. Not everyone can use D3<http://d3js.org/> and code a story like this.
>
> The tool, http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/,  is mainly only
> functional (see the Demo<http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/storyteller/2>),
> but needs, of course, a lot more user interface design. However, it already
> works and people can start using it. Some cool features:
>
>   *   you build the story in sections and can rearrange them once you have
> created them
>   *   you can choose whether each section will be text or some type of
> media
>   *   you can audio to each section
>   *   currently, the media we have is screen-size photo and video, but we
> will add a slideshow soon and then others (maybe interactive choropleth
> map, simple charts, ...)
>   *   the media can have captions and sub-captions
>   *   you can host your scrolling story on the site itself;
>   *   you can export, as a zipped file, all the files once you build it,
> and host them on any server you want;
>   *   you can download the entire app for use in your organization (the
> github link is in the top-right corner - it is a Ruby-on-Rails app)
>   *   we have started adding templates to it;
>
> Obviously, we still have a lot to do (well, sky's the limit) , but slowly
> we will build this up and add new features. Let us know what you think and
> if you have any ideas that might make it useful for you, we'd love to hear
> them.
>
> http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/
>
> Eric
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