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Al Shaw Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Keynote

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August 31, 2012
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Al Shaw Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Keynote

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Al Shaw

August 31, 2012

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Transcript

  1. Al Shaw News Apps Developer ProPublica @A_L Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires.

    Aug., 2012

  2. What is a news application?

  3. Telling a story in software instead of words and pictures

  4. Readers become Users

  5. How did we get here?

  6. In the beginning

  7. CAR

  8. News Apps

  9. Following the web

  10. None

  11. Web page Web app

  12. None

  13. Why?

  14. Why?

  15. None

  16. This is a good thing for deadlines.

  17. None

  18. And with the CAR guys

  19. None

  20. News page News app

  21. Readers have become Users

  22. Readers expect to be Users

  23. Readers expect to be Users { We call these ‘do-something’

    boxes }

  24. Anatomy

  25. Anatomy Far Near Lede

  26. Apps generate stories

  27. Apps generate stories Text

  28. News Apps

  29. None
  30. None

  31. Sometimes stories generate apps which generate more stories

  32. None
  33. None
  34. None

  35. How do I start?

  36. None

  37. Program in anger – DHH

  38. Thank you. @A_L propublica.org/tools