It was the first ever issue of the Guardian - and our first attempt at data journalism • Get the 1821 data • Download the original PDF Data journalism is not new: the very first Guardian - or Manchester Guardian as it then was - in May 1821 contained a table of data. For the first time, we've extracted that table so you can see it for yourselves. The data would seem uncontroversial today: a list o
From the royal wedding to the death of Osama bin Laden, the English summer riots and the fall of Gaddafi, here are some of major news stories of the past 12 months captured in Lego by Flickr members. If you want to add your Lego take on a news event this year, email community.coordinators@guardian.co.uk or join our Flickr group April 2011: Well-wishers, tourists and media gather to watch the Duke
Internet giant Google has deployed a seasonal touch to its search engine, greeting at least one festive query with a decorative flurry of snow. In the latest of a long line of tweaks to the service, users searching for "let it snow" are greeted to a decorative cascade of snowflakes in their browser. In a further twist, as the flakes continue to fall, the list of returned links begins to frost over
As with the previous deadly earthquakes in Turkey, within hours of the 7.2 magnitude tremor which destroyed dozens of buildings in the east of the country on Sunday came complaints that not enough was being done to help the victims. This time, however, the anguished onlookers could do more about it – through social media. At the heart of these efforts was Erhan Çelik, a journalist for Turkey's Kan
In the first of a series of exclusive short stories, William Trevor tells of a tutor and his young pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet up again years later
Susan Greenfield's recent comments about how modern technology and social media are changing the way our brains work have caused quite a stir in the academic community: these changes, she claims, are as important to understand as climate change. One interesting way of assessing the value of her statements is to look at the nature of the "reading brain". To begin with, the human brain was never mea
Law enforcers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere are coming to grips with a hard reality: modern communications technologies give activists of all kinds an easier way to organise and deploy. But even as governments move to crack down, as Jeff Jarvis notes, activists are also learning a lesson – not just those whom we may support, such as the Egyptian revolutionaries, but also those whose deeds le
Yes Joanna Moorhead So, 11- and 12-year-olds across Britain and the US are standing by in the hope that Mark Zuckerberg's plea for under-13s to be allowed to use Facebook is heard by their countries' decision-makers. Only, of course, they aren't . . . because they are already on it, tapping away furiously like all their mates, finding out what shopping centre to meet in after school tomorrow and w
Reporter and newspaper Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later this year, the first time the body has sought to consolidate social media messages under its remit. The PCC believes that some postings on Twitter are, in effect part of a "newspaper's editorial product", writings that its code of practice would otherwise cover if the same tex
リリース、障害情報などのサービスのお知らせ
最新の人気エントリーの配信
処理を実行中です
j次のブックマーク
k前のブックマーク
lあとで読む
eコメント一覧を開く
oページを開く