'GOAT HAD THE TIME OF HIS LIFE'

Have you ever wondered how many goats live in the United States?

It doesn't matter!

The helpful journalists at the Washington Post's Wonkblog created a map of ~"literally"~ every goat in the United States because data journalism? Who cares? GOATS!






ANYWAY! According the 2012 data from the United States Department of Agriculture, this is the breakdown of the local goat population, by county:

Ulster: 330

Greene: 443

Columbia: 667

Dutchess: 3,126



More goats: The escaped Lowell, Massachusetts, goat can now have a home, if he's ever found.

'GOAT HAD THE TIME OF HIS LIFE' screamed the Freeman in 1906 and the sub-headlines are even better.

So this is more than obligatory.

I don't know what else to do with this information, so here's an New York Mag article about going to Hudson. No mentions of Brooklyn so *slow clap gif*

An 80-year-old retired Sullivan County principal won the $326M Mega Millions jackpot. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 258.9 million.

So here's some more ~ data journalism ~: You're more likely to be killed by an asteroid than winning the lottery.

Hey, you never know.

One cat dressed as a goat.

One Google Glass picture of goats at the Ulster County Fair in New Paltz in 2013 (I knew I had at least one from the bunch).

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. You also get a cat and a Google Glass photo. And sometimes I try to have a theme, so you get goats today.

How to 'snowfall' your stories with no coding and for free

When Kevin Nguyen wrote about 'The future of the feature' over at Nieman Lab last November, I began to think about how small newsrooms could use web tools to produce a similar effect.

Then came the New York Times' 'Snow Fall' and that really got me excited about the possibilities, and I imagine others did too, if this wonder by the Washington Post is any indication. Reading about how 'Snow Fall' came to be (same deal with Wapo's cycling feature) was very enjoyable but — being in a small newsroom and all— it also became a permanent exercise of thinking how I didn't have time, or staff, or developers, or a good content management system. You get the idea.

I had started plotting using different web applications in unconventional ways to reach my goal: Produce an enjoyable web experience that also had responsive design AND for no money AND fast AND with no coding, so it could be replicated when needed and scaled up to other newsrooms.

SO, my first try was a vertical add-on sidebar using New Hive.

2010 Pulizer Prize winners, animated!

Did you noticed that the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons went to a self-syndicated ANIMATED series of cartoons by Mark Fiore?

The Pulitzer Board sure is moving ahead.
This means that:
* The editorial cartoon winner for this year can not be published in a print newspaper.
* And the Flash animations won't work with your iPad, either (Apple doesn't like Adobe). Or your smartphone.
* HAHAHAHAHA!


Winners via www.pulitzer.org

2010 Pulitzer Prize winners:

Journalism

Public Service - Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier

Breaking News Reporting - The Seattle Times Staff

Investigative Reporting - Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News and Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine

Explanatory Reporting - Michael Moss and members of The New York Times Staff

Local Reporting - Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

National Reporting - Matt Richtel and members of The New York Times Staff

International Reporting - Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post

Feature Writing - Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

Commentary - Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post

Criticism - Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post

Editorial Writing - Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie of The Dallas Morning News

Editorial Cartooning - Mark Fiore, self syndicated, appearing on SFGate.com

Breaking News Photography - Mary Chind of The Des Moines Register

Feature Photography - Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post

Letters, Drama and Music

Fiction - Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)

Drama - Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

History - Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)

Biography - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry - Versed by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)

General Nonfiction - The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)

Music - Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)

Special Citations

Hank Williams

press release on the Special Citation awarded to Hank Williams