That's the upshot of this lovely interactive from the Las Vegas Sun. The interactive map "shows the annual change in prescription narcotic consumption across the country between 1997 and 2006. By combining reports from the Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Diversion Control and annual population estimates from the US Census, the Sun was able to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We're all...

Newsquest has begun the roll out of a relaunch of its websites with the Lancashire Telegraph, Bradford Telegraph & Argus and York's The Press. Hold The Front Page describe it as a "modernised and revamped look". Really? As Keri Davies put it: "ugh, what a mess". Alex Lockwood: "looks like shoveldesign - can barely see [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Newsquest relaunch local newspaper websites…...

Assuming you want them to, how do you get people to blog? It's a challenge facing most community editors, particularly as they seek to encourage a conversation with readers for whom Wordpress or Blogger are still too fiddly. Enter Posterous, a fantastically intuitive, quick and easy blogging platform. Scrapping the need for registration, or even the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Something for t...

The best thing that I took from this week's 2gether08 event was yesterday's announcement by blogging MP Tom Watson and Ofcom's blogging Tom Loosemore of Show Us a Better Way. The site (also a blog - notice a pattern here?) is releasing a range of public data and inviting people to mash them up, or come [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Could this be the tipping point for UK data mashups?", url: "ht...

Twit2art is one of those wonderful ideas that captures the age we're living in - and heading towards. A project by Belgian artist Jan Leenders, it works like this: you send a tweet @twit2art and he'll make an artwork with it. So far, so good. But this is where it gets interesting: "If you're fast, it's cheap. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "When social media meets art and creates a new business m...