November 2011
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Open Records: Fighting for information on...
There are more than 200 cameras watching the residents of Wilkes-Barre, and city officials say they make the city safer.
The problem, though, is the city says it doesn’t keep track - or plan to keep track - of any statistics that would show whether the cameras are effective. In its mind, the city’s word that the cameras are effective is all the public needs.
That’s where we...
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USA Today, Chris Schnaars use jQuery DataTables... →
Schnaars gives a great explanation of how USA Today built its interactive database of salaries for college football coaches. It’s awesome and will probably suck up a lot of my weekend.
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Chronicle of Higher Ed. uses Storify well to track...
The Chronicle of Higher Education put together a Storify post following the Penn State sex abuse story.
Check it out below the jump.
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“It’s kind of like watching commercials about yourself constantly.”
– Incumbent District Attorney candidate Jackie Musto Carroll, the subject of a massive attack ad campaign, talking about cyber bullying.
An open records victory →
A proposal to allow agencies to be able to tell people records don’t exist if they are exempt from FOIA finally failed.
What a horrid proposal.
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