New Campaign Finance API (NYTimes.com): Want to mash up campaign finance data, or make your own campaign finance map? Try this: “When we first started talking about creating and releasing APIs for databases collected by The Times, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission was a natural choice. The upcoming presidential election has seen record fundraising by the candidates and a host of new donors. Now we want our users to be able to analyze and reuse some of the data we’ve been looking at while reporting on the campaign.” Find more cool data mashup resources at the Times Developer Network
Standardizing Tags in the Metadata Minefield (O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing): “At what point does metadata cross the line from useful to pollution? When it’s not standardized. The kind of XML tagging we’re primarily talking about can be sectioned into three buckets: rights data (‘this picture is good for print products but not electronic ones,’ ‘we can use this graphic anywhere,’ ‘these animations are exclusively for the workbook’), formatting data (‘this is a chapter,’ ‘this is a footnote’), and context data (‘Paris,’ ‘1955,’ ‘General Robert E. Lee,’ ‘noodles’). This is a perfect recipe for complete chaos.”
Pitchengine.com: Media Get PR Pitches Via RSS, Not E-mail or Voicemail. New service that might be more manageable and less time-consuming than traditional PR channels: “Media Get PR Pitches Via RSS, Not Email or Voicemail.”
