The future of news, part 52,407
Adrian Holovaty is quitting The Washington Post to set up a Web company "that focuses on making local news and information useful."
He just won a $1.1 million grant for a project "to create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block."
He said his goal is to "create an easy way to answer the question, ‘What’s happening around me?’”
Holovaty is a rare breed, a journalist by training who actually knows how to write computer code. His best known project is chicagocrime.org, but he has done several innovative projects for the Post as well.
By going open source, he is going against the grain of for profit publishers and depending on how easily transported his code turns out to be, he could end up doing a lot to energize the citizen media movement.
He just won a $1.1 million grant for a project "to create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block."
He said his goal is to "create an easy way to answer the question, ‘What’s happening around me?’”
Holovaty is a rare breed, a journalist by training who actually knows how to write computer code. His best known project is chicagocrime.org, but he has done several innovative projects for the Post as well.
By going open source, he is going against the grain of for profit publishers and depending on how easily transported his code turns out to be, he could end up doing a lot to energize the citizen media movement.
posted by Miles Maguire at 2:32 PM
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