Julian Burgess‘s game, Whose Headline, won the News+Gaming Hackathon held at CUNY Journalism school over April 22 and 23 in New York City. The game presents headlines drawn from various publications, using RSS feeds, and asks the players to identify which publication it comes from. The original publications included The New York Times, ESPN, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Daily News, Mashable, and Forbes. Cody Brown also won a prize for suggesting that The Onion‘s satirical headlines be added to the list.
Journalists, developers and designers:
Join Hacks/Hackers for Hacks/Hackers Hacking @ ONA11 in Boston on Sept. 22!
We’re holding a hack day sponsored by Knight-Mozilla News Tech Partnership and additional partners (to be announced) the day before Online News Association annual conference general sessions.
Meet new people, make new friends and prototype projects with code, wireframes and websites at the Microsoft NERD Center. What we produce together at the all-day hackathon will help shape the future of news and civic information.
We’re hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. To participate, register on our Meetup.com page. We will have great food.
The agenda:
– Friday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.: Social event with talks about gaming mechanics (alcohol too!). Find hack day partners for Saturday and share ideas.
– Saturday, April 23: Daylong hackathon at CUNY in midtown starting at ~9 a.
Save the date! Hacks/Hackers NYC will be hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API.
Plans are still coming together. But it looks like we will do a Friday night social event with talks about gaming with speakers from BigDoor and elsewhere. (Know anyone? Email nyc[at]hackshackers[dot]com with why that person is good)
Then Saturday is the daylong hackathon at CUNY in midtown.
Stamen Design has developed a reputation as one of the country’s leading interactive design and data visualization studios. Its director of technology, Michal Migurski, will join Hacks/Hackers NYC to talk about his latest project, This Tract, which combines government census data, data visualization tools, map tools and geolocation to better understand the area near where you are.
Come to New Work City on Jan. 11 to talk with Michal about his process, the design (created with designer/developer Craig Mod), the technology and the reasoning for presenting this large, detailed dataset.
On December 4thand 5th, Random Hacks of Kindness is holding a multi-city hackathon to create software to “mitigate or respond to disasters around the world and save lives.” The Hacks/Hackers community is invited to participate.
The organizers of Random Hacks of Kindness think both developers and journalists — who play such an important role in communications about natural disasters — can both contribute to the projects being developed.
This is the third Random Hacks of Kindness event.
Why do you call part of Chinatown the Lower East Side?
How can I be Pac-Man?!
These questions are answered by the apps cranked out overnight this past weekend at The Great Urban Hack NYC. The mission for the 80 or so journalists and developers there was to design, report on, code and create projects to help New Yorkers get the information they need while strengthening a sense of community. It was open to themes around news, politics, government information, arts, culture or education — pretty much any journalism or technology project (going as far buying views on YouTube related topics) that might help residents connect to each other or the city.
Hacks/Hackers NYC and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center held an epic hackathon called The Great Urban Hack which led to 25 hours of hacking. Below are some pictures of the hardcore folks who stayed at the space all night. The above shot is from after midnight, but before people started falling off like flies. There was a late-night beer run. And we kept everyone really well fed. The people who stay all night were rewarded with xkcd schwag, courtesy of Breadpig.
In conjunction with the Online News Association convention, Hacks/Hackers hosted a hackathon at NPR that was sponsored by Daylife, a New York-based technology company which offered a $500 cash prize for the the best use of its API.
Surprisngly, hackathon participants hailed from as far as Portland, Miami, Los Angeles and London. They’vebeen involved in projects ranging from WordPress, ScraperWiki and GeoDjango. Two of the participants were students actually that worked at the Federal Communication Commission.
About 25 people gathered at the MIT Media Lab on October 30 for a Hack/Hackers Boston co-organized event to build geolocal apps using OpenBlock, an open source hyperlocal news and data gathering system based on Django. OpenBlock is based on EveryBlock. Boston Innovation had great coverage and a video, which can be seen above, which interviews Matt Carroll, of the Boston Globe, and Nick Grossman, of OpenPlans, who did the heavy lifting to organize the event.
