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Something that, at least for now, we've dubbed the Video Notebook. Your notes, as well as the sources you've imported, scroll along with the video. Just click on a note and the video jumps to the proper location in the timeline. The lab's lead developer, Charlie Szymanski, is heading up the project. His goal is to create an application to index, search and analyze recorded video by syncing notes and data feeds from sources like Twitter, Storify and live blogs. Essentially, it will allow reporters to save hours of time normally spent wading through video by jumping right to the segments they're looking for. We're hoping a tool like this will be especially helpful to reporters planning to live tweet recorded events, from city council meetings to political stump speeches.

Blog Learning to love…grep (let the computer search text for you) Posted by Michelle Minkoff on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments I've gotten into the habit of posting daily learnings on Twitter, but some things require a more in-depth reminder. I also haven't done as much paying as forward as I'd like (but I'm having a TON of fun! and dealing with health problems! but mostly fun!) I'd like to try to start posting more helpful tips here, partially as a notebook for myself, and partially to help others with similar issues. Today's problem: I needed to search for a few lines of text, which could be contained in any one of nine files with 100,000 lines each. Opening all of the files took a very long time on my computer, not to mention executing a search. Enter the "grep" command in Terminal, that allows you to quickly search files using the power of the computer.

An easy to use method for content analysis

Open Data Cook BookMaking Open Data Accessible for EveryoneAbout the Cook BookThe open data cook book is collecting recipes for ways to find and use open data, particularly open data of social value - such as open government data, or open data for campaigners and charities. Working with data can seem scary. But it doesn't have to be. There are many different ways to make data useful - and lots of different gadgets to help you. Take a look at the growing list of cook book recipes to find simple step by step ideas for making use of open data. RecipesYou can find a list of the recipes so far here. Drafts, ideas and notesIn the cooks notebook you can find draft notes on using different datasets and sketches that might develop into recipes in future. Get InvolvedFind out how to get involved here or jump right in and create a recipe. Tweet with the #opendatacookbook tag, or bookmark content on del.icio.us 'opendatacookbook ' to share with the project. Join the mailing list to discuss developments. UpdateAfter a brief experiment with Drupal as a CMS for the cook book - we've switched to DokuWiki for a bit to make compiling a list of recipes a lot easier before we work out the best way to run the Cook Book.