7:00 – 4:00 VTX

• Good Meeting with Thom Lieb
  • Here’s a good checklist for reporting on different types of stories: http://www.sbcc.edu/journalism/manual/checklist/index.php
  • Ordered Melvin Mencher’s News Reporting and Writing
  • Discussed Chatbots, fashion in technology, and NewsTrust, a fact-checking site that piloted out of Baltimore in 2011. This post explains why it wound up folding. Important note: Tie into social media for inputs and outputs!!!
• Added Communication Power and Counter-power in the Network Society to the corpus
• Manuel Castells is the author of the above. Really clear thinking. Added another paper, The Future of Journalism: Networked Journalism
• Had an interesting chat with an ex-cop about trustworthiness. He’s a fan of the Reid Technique and had a bunch of perspectives that I hadn’t considered. Looking for applications to text, I came across this, which looks potentially relevant: Eliciting Information and Detecting Lies in Intelligence Interviewing: An Overview Of Recent Research
• Todd Schneider analyzes big data in interesting posts on his blog.
• Chapter 7 Using Queries
  • JPQL
  • Totally digging the @NamedQuery annotation.
  • How to paginate a result:

    int pageSize = 15;
    int maxPages = 10;
    for(int curPage = 0; curPage < maxPages; ++curPage){
        List l = nt.runRawPagedQuery(GuidBase.class, curPage, pageSize, "SELECT gb.id, gb.name, gb.guid FROM guid_base gb");
        if(l == null || l.size() == 0){
            break;
        }else{
            System.out.println("Batch ["+curPage+"]");
            nt.printListContents(l);
        }
        System.out.println();
    }

  • Stopping at Queries and Uncommitted Changes, in case my computer is rebooted under me tonight.