Interesting links for 2010-08-06

'Joe Foote, the head of the World Journalism Education Council and dean of Oklahoma University's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, ultimately described the Congress as the coming out party of journalism education.'

'The Guardian takes data journalism seriously. They obtain, format, and publish journalistically interesting data sets on their Data Blog, they track transparency initiatives in their searchable index of world government data, and they do original research on data they’ve obtained, such as their amazing in-depth analysis of 90,000 leaked Afghanistan war documents. And they do most of this with simple, free tools.'

One such tip: "Don't use semicolons. They stand for absolutely nothing. They are transvestite hermaphrodites. They are just a way of showing off. To show that you have been to college."