Courtesy of Glyn Mottershead, one of the delegates at news:rewired, here’s audio of Tony Hirst from the Open University talking about in-browser data-mashing for journalists.

In the data mashing session, Open University lecturer Tony Hirst presented on ‘Playing with data – all you need is glue’.

If you attended news:rewired but missed some talks or you couldn’t make the day altogether, below is a round-up of coverage from the sessions.

The success of volunteer-driven local media depends on a platform for marginalised voices and good human relations, delegates were told.

Citizens are now able “poke the beast of authority” at the touch of a button, according to Francis Irving, senior developer at mySociety.org

The afternoon crowdsourcing session at news:rewired was dominated by disagreements about the value of citizen journalism

The news:rewired team caught up with the Times Online web editor, Joanna Geary, The Guardian Local’s launch editor Sarah Hartley, and The Lichfield Blog’s Philip John to hear their predictions for local media in 2010

news:rewired reporters Heather Christie and Alex Walters caught up with Robin Hamman, head of social media for Headshift and Kate Day, head of communities for Telegraph.co.uk.

In the latest of our Q&As we hear from Tony Hirst, lecturer at the Open University. He blogs at OUseful.Info, where he explores the potential application of web technologies and applications to learning. He has been behind some of the most interesting uses of the Guardian’s Open Platform.
At news:rewired Tony will give examples of how journalists can make better use of data for telling stories and illustrating reports. You can follow Tony on Twitter: @psychemedia.
You can listen to a little preview of Tony’s session in this Boo – made …

A detailed look at collecting and archiving links to keyword or hashtag-based social activity on a WordPress blog.