Lo que podría ser un sueño de Rajoy a su paso por La Prospe, no es más que una producción del PP para promocionar la enésima campaña de que “esto lo arreglamos entre todos” o “el curiculum de todos” de Campofrío, que esta vez se llama #juntossalimos. A ver si con esta sí que sí que sí salimos de la eterna crisis. Un montaje rápido, memeficable (buscando el viral) con muchas imágenes sugerentes, estética youtube de archivo y una voz en off que va ligando todo el discurso. Por las localizaciones que he detectado (La Prospe y Calle Fuencarral) parace un vídeo cuidado pero rápidamente hecho. No voy a analizarlo como un cabalista, pero hay dos imágenes, y el texto ligado a ellas que tienen poco de subliminales que me gustaría destacar:

“Su educación [de tus hijos]“. 1.00

“Tu futuro”. 1.02

¿La parroquia como la educación de tus hijos? ¿Madrid 2020 (y van 3) como tu futuro? wtf

Para terminar, tras “eres lo que eliges, por tanto lo que eliges te representa” y mostrar a Adolfo Suárez, Superman, John Lennon, Steve Jobs y al Papa sale el 15M seguido de un corto fundido en negro. Se oye “pero si eliges no elegir, otros decidirán por ti” acompañando a dos imágenes de una manifestación en la Plaza de Neptuno (creo que la de “rodea el congreso” el 25S): gente frente a las ya clásicas vallas que impiden llegar al congreso (y una bandera republicana), seguido de la famosa escena street fighter del manifestante empujando a un policía.

1.13

“Pero si eliges no elegir, otros decidirán por ti”. 1.28

Como era la enésima vez que leía/veía algo para desligitimar las movilizaciones sociales y a favor del sistema democrático actual, pensé que sería bueno dejarlo por escrito.

You’ll not find Washington Post or LA Times in Boston news stands. It’s so difficult to get the paper!

So, I had to subscribe to the Washington Post and LA Times by mail. They will be arriving more than a week later after the publication date.

Newspapers are heavy and are folded. We put some books to try to have flat sheets.

Cool idea, put newspapers front pages in bags… but this model was too thin plastic and didn’t passed the test. Although not all newspaper are the same width, I decided to buy one size bag for all of them. I had to buy 1,000, do you need some?

These are the right plastic bags… and they are full of surprises (insect and spiders from another era). Besides, they are super-slippery objects, impossible to grab.

First thing is to put every front page in its bag. Thanks Adrienne for helping!

Nice and ready, every front page is now in a bag.

We were using the previous digital analysis that we had made with PageOneX.com to help us with the coding. We’ll find in the process multiple small news that we had skipped!

We keep copy+pasting. Thanks Luis for helping! Foto: Luis Edgardo Cotto

First time we see a whole week coded. Foto: Luis Edgardo Cotto

While coding you can find amazing things: people cheering in the front and last page.

That’s how the table looked like when we were finishing the process of manual coding. Thanks Nacho for helping! We coded all the news related to the Boston Marathon bombings as terrorism (yellow) and also other bombings and news about terrorist. However, Why is Boston ‘terrorism’ but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?  Worth mentioning that the Marathon bombings events also included shootings with guns. Are we wrong coding?

A giant level: to look like we know what we are doing. Blue painters tape: the only tape we are allowed to use in the building. Álvaro, thanks for helping!

Legend on the top left corner. We didn’t have to remove those Washington Posts… they never arrived, after several calls asking for them!

That’s what you see from the MIT Media Lab Lobby.

The Boston Globe is the third row from the top. It almost always have a small news about international war conflict in red (Korea, Afghanistan) and something about guns (guns control debate or shooting). NYT, second from the top, dedicates usually a picture above the fold to guns or wars.

Example of a Guns/Wars pair in a New York Times front page.

That’s how the installation looks like. From top to bottom: Washington Post, NYtimes, Boston Globe and LA TImes.

You will say: -why are there missing papers? I will tell you: -This is a small data visualization, we show what we have. Sometimes data (newspapers) don’t arrive, so we don’t display them.
In that sense the data visualization is showing the availability of the data: the first row (Washington Post) and in the bottom row (LA Times) you can see all the papers that didn’t arrived on time.
I’ll be putting on the wall as soon as they arrive.

Visitor number 3.

Visitor recording the installation.

Update 26.04.13: Uploading some LATimes and Washington Post that arrived this week.

Update: May 22th 2013. Finally some days ago the delayed LATimes and Washington Post arrived.

Finally the delayed LATimes and Washington Post arrived.

Compare it to the original mockup.

I’ll be uploading more photos to this post. Cross-posted at civic.mit.edu/blog

Breath in, breath out.

I do not think I will use this approach in the final PageOneX real size version, but it is interesting to view the same newspapers coded by different ways. I can imagine a par of special glasses that would allow the viewer shift from one visualization to another.

Note: I have only coded the main news (the ones with bigger size).

It was one of those ideas that seemed easy: to build a real size 1:1 scale of a PageOneX analysis. I just needed to buy 4 newspapers during 4 weeks, highlight certain stories, and put them on the wall. However, as it usually happens, things are easier said that done.

Finding the newspapers

I thought that buying the newspapers everyday would be the easy part, a question of self-discipline, but things are not what they seem. My first idea was to get them from the public libraries, but at the Cambridge Public Library they told me that they are forced to destroy them after 4 months. The next approach was to go buy them.

It’s easy to find The New York Times at any corner. It costs $2.5 on week days and $6 on Sundays. It’s also easy to buy The Boston Globe, if you live in Boston. In my case, I am getting the Globe directly from them, as they have an open collaboration with the Center for Civic Media, where I am now based.

It got more complicated when I went to buy Los Angeles Times and the The Washington Post. It is not possible to buy them in Boston. I went to the bigger news stands and called the newspapers directly: they are not sold in the region, and I guess it would happen the same in other regions of the US. You can get Le Figaro or Le Monde with some days of delay, but not LA Times or Washington Post in the classical “Out of Town News” in Harvard Square. Anyone needing proofs that print press are having a bad time? So, my next step was to subscribe to those newspapers.

After a few phone calls I was able to subscribe to The Washington Post that Saturday for 4 weeks for $72, initially I had to buy at least 8 weeks. To get copies of the previous days I would have to pay the standard fee $10/copy. I also tried to get an online access as a subscriber, but it was not possible with my post subscription. They told me that  I would receive the Washington Post told with a 2-4 days latency.

Los Angeles Times offices were not opened on weekends, so I had to wait until Monday to get the 8 week subscription, the minimum required, for $167. Luckily, I was able to get the papers from the days previous to my subscription. I would receive the papers with a 7-8 days latency, as they send them through regular post.

Newspapers at home

I hadn’t had  the newspaper at home everyday since I was living with my parents. Finally directly in touch with the objects I’ve been studying all these past months: paper front pages. I could physically experience the overload of information and advertisement, piles of papers piling up on top of my closet. I could also see the above and below the fold news and experience the difficulties of the paper navigation. I find it really difficult to read these huge newspapers that are split into different booklets that fall apart when you open them. I also found the full page ads in the last page, which would be a great second phase of this project, a LastPageX visualization.

By now I have all NYtimes and Boston Globes since day one (March 26th). I am missing LA Times papers since April 9th (congruent with a 7 day latency), and from The Washington Post I miss the period March 26-29, April 8th, and since April 12th.

I have to start the installation this Wednesday April 17th. Therefore, for the newspapers that would have not arrived by then, I will have to use printed copies of the front pages, or maybe display a 404 error white page?

It’s being a good experiment on how difficult it is to get the paper copies of these newspapers. I can test now what I had written in the PageOneX description hundreds of times: that digital coding would avoid the problems of buying and storing newspapers.

One night the guy from the convenience store told me, when I tried to buy the NYTimes in his shop: we don’t sell newspapers, why would we when you can read them online?

What to code? Guns, Sports and Wars

After an initial test I’m exploring the possibility of coding: Gun control vs Sports vs International War Conflicts. Here is how it would look like:

I also coded Gay Marriage and Cyprus economic Crisis news, but I think there was not enough and continued coverage to include them in the graphic.

• International War conflicts: Syrian, North Korea, Afgahinstan, Iran and Isael-Palestina.
• Guns: the debate on gun control and killing by guns in the US.
• Sports: basketball, baseball, golf, wrestling, marathon.

I am still open to suggestions! Bear in mind that what ever topics I select, I’ll have to manually cut the transparent pieces of colored plastic to put on top of the newspapers.

Want to join the coding process?

I will be reading papers + cutting plastic sheets from this Wednesday until Friday. Contact me if you want to join. It’s going to be fun to have access to all these newspapers. I am envisioning more projects beyond this one!
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PS: when I was about to close this post, the Boston Marathon explosions occurred. How will it influence press coverage these following days?

Cross-posted at civic.mit.edu

Me habla de uno de sus últimos proyectos. En una de esas estaciones de tren en mitad de la nada él va con un traje de chaqueta. La cosa es que ese traje desprende pintura de colores, y según se va apoyando en el edificio, lo va pintando. Una especie de gamberrada o arte público que va llenando de color la pared y a él mismo. Recuerdo los rojos en la pared y sobre su corbata, camisa y chaqueta. Algún azul tal vez, negros cerca del suelo. La pared cada vez más coloreada mientras él sigue girando y girando para pintar la estación entera.

Una especie de arte furtivo, pero no tiene quien lo persiga.

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Me desperté y escribí el sueño. Al ir a comprar el periódico del día vi que uno de sus cuadros ocupaba casi toda la portada.

pd: Marcus me respondió con el sueño de una amiga suya.

I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow Wednesday April 3rd about Basurama. I am presenting the multidisciplinary activities we develop around/with trash and the paper Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste (just presented to the Reclaim + Remake Symposium next week in Washington DC).

It will be at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities/Barker Center invited Cultural Agents Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

What: Talk: Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste
When: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 – 6pm – 8pm
Where: Barker Center, Seminar Room 133, Harvard University. 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Besides, for the end of the month, April 20th, I am preparing a waste installation How to picture 2 tons of waste? for April 20th. It’s going to be fun and… I need your help!

The best way to show the last improvements in PageOneX‘s development is by using them. After lasts Ed’s commits it is possible to draw as many rectangles as you need when coding a single front page, whereas before it was only possible to draw 2 rectangles per image.

I used this new feature to analyze the gender of the bylines: who is writing the news that are in the front page. It is inspired in the research that Nathan Mathias is developing about gender and the news. In his case, he’s written a script to analyze the byline automatically from online newspapers. Check Nathan’s posts about this topic: Gender in Global Voices, Women’s Representation in Online News, Data science for gender equality: Monitoring womens voices in the news and Women, news, and the internet: (almost) everything we know.

What is presented above is a visualization of the same kind of study, in this case, a infinitesimal portion (last week in two newspapers), and manually coded with the help of PageOneX. I only coded the articles that had the byline visible in the front page. The images that were not related to an article were left un-coded.

It would be interesting to compare the data obtained with this method with the ones obtained by a study by Women in Journalism “Seen but not heard: how women make front page news” (WiJ) that “found that 78% of all front page bylines were male; 22% were female”. Their research studied  UK newspapers and their method was slightly different:  they “counted the number of female and male bylines on each front page”, whereas PageOneX calculates the percentage of surface of the articles. Nevertheless, it might be interesting to compare results with a larger data set. WiJ’s study was a 4 weeks period and also analyzed the content of lead stories and photographs. It is worth checking the graphics based on these data by the Datablog  (all the data are available) and the article by Jane Martinson.

I am particularly interested in how a tool like PageOneX might be able to make the coding process of news and its data visualizations faster, easier and more visually compelling. The coding process presented in this blog post took me less than one hour.

If you are interested in collaborating or using PageOneX you can join the developers’ listserv, the users’ email list or the newsletter.

PS: This new feature is not yet in the available in the alpha online version, but it soon will. Meanwhile you can download and install your own deployment.

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Thanks Nathan Mathias for your contribution to this post.

PageOneX: How newspapers tell the story? This is how the project would look like at the MIT Media Lab Festival

PageOneX keeps moving forward. We want to have it ready for the spring, but first we have to solve a large list of bugs and other issues. A lot to code! So much coding that we sometimes forget that paper newspapers are real objects. That’s why we want to make a physical visualization of newspapers, a 1:1 scale version of PageOneX for the MIT Media Lab Festival (April 2013).

We have yet to decide the topic/s we want to focus on and when we are going to start buying newspapers. Our original plan is having New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Do you have any suggestion about which topic we should follow? When to start buying the newspapers?

We are inspired by other people that have done similar displays with real newspapers that we have came across recently:

The film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) (available to watch in archive.org) by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick makes visual what the book Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky and Herman describes. They use as a case study the coverage of Timor war and Cambodia wars, that were happening simultaneously (1975-1979) by stitching together all the columns of text that The New York Times dedicated to each topic. Column inches is the measure that academics (and advertisers) have used to measure the amount of coverage. It was a way to show the different amount of coverage that state atrocities get, depending if they came from friend or allies states or from official enemies of the US. It is an empirical demonstration of the propaganda model.

Genocides coverage in column inches in The New York Times:

• Timor 1975 Indonesia occupation (left column: 70 column inches)
• Cambodia Khmer_Rouge, Pol Pot (right column: 1,175 column inches).

They also make a wonderful display of surface area dedicated to see the ratio of advertisement and news in a  The New York Times newspaper (we are thinking on replicating this data visualization):

Ads vs news in New York Times from film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Inspired by the Manufacturing Consent film Siemon Allen made his Newspaper project. He was struck by the fact that during the same period 1975-1979 in South Africa another important event was happening “the Soweto uprisings, heightened police oppression, the expansion of separate development, and the death of many activists, including Steve Biko”. He made similar visual displays to show how was the coverage about South Africa in US newspapers:

Showing certain news in newspapers or cutting and pasting the news in long strips.

Siemon Allen Newspaper project. Hightlighing certain news

Siemon Allen Newspaper project. Cutting the news and forming strips.

He also made standard data visualization (pie charts) when he analyzed the content of the news and classified it: aids, sport, culture, crime…

Siemon Allen Newspaper project. Percentage of coverage to certain categories in The Washington Post.

Note: The photos from the film are screenshots I took. The Siemon Allen images are all extracted from his website.

Edita el .htaccess y añade estas líneas:
php_value upload_max_filesize 64M
php_value post_max_size 64M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

Vuelve a subirlo donde lo habías encontrado, en el raiz de tu servidor.

Encontré la solución tras probar las diferentes opciones que contaban en wpbeginner.

Using Hugin to stitch some photos of MIT from Prudential tower in Boston.

I decided to test PageOneX, a tool to visualize the evolution of stories on newspaper front pages, to see how the coverage on corruption was being made. It is a good moment to do so, now that we, at the Center for Civic Media, are currently developing it. We hope to have a fully functional version by the end of the month, but you can always test the online alpha version or install the code locally. You can also get involved in the testing and development, it is open source.

This post is based on another I wrote in Spanish Es lo mismo pero no es igual in my blog.

1. Corruption or not corruption?

The hypothesis and common ground knowledge is that every Spanish newspaper is usually  aligned with a political party. They usually  follow the corruption cases of the ‘opponent’ parties. Measuring the coverage in the front page seemed a good proxy to analyze their political agendas and to verify the hypothesis.

I selected 9 Spanish newspapers and highlighted the stories related to corruption cases in the last days until February 5th, 2013.

There are two big ‘black’ clusters: after Jan. 17th, when El Mundo published that the ruling party ex-treasurer, Bárcenas, had a $29 million swiss account, and after January 31st, when the excerpts from the party’s parallel financial accounts were published by El País. Both scoops drain all the other newspapers to talk about the same PP corruption case.

2. What are they talking about?

To see in detail what the different newspapers were talking about we needed to analyze first the corruption cases by institution.

The usual suspects
The major three parties:
PP (Partido Popular): conservative party. Blue.
PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español): center-left social democrat. Red.
CiU (Convergència i Unió): conservative Catalan nationalist. Orange.

And the royal house, where the son-in-law of King Juan Carlos, is being investigated. Green.

Both newspapers, El País and El Mundo, are in opposite political spectrums, but in this case they made a common cause to cover the Bárcenas story that affected the conservative party Partido Popular (PP) in the government.

El País has centered its coverage in the PP (blue), leaving little space to CiU (orange) or the monarchy, and none to the PSOE (red, affected by Amy Martin case).

El País coverage.

El Mundo has a colorful timeline involving all the major corruption cases. Being usually a defender of the PP and attacking PSOE, there is an ongoing debate about why this change might have happened. Some people suggest that El Mundo might be pushing for a change and renovation inside the conservative party.

El Mundo corruption coverage.

3. How are they telling the story?

However, if we look closer to our analysis, some things might not fit in the alignment of mass media with certain major political parties.  All of the newspapers are talking about the PP corruption case, but not in the same way. To understand how they are framing the story we need a framing analysis.

ABC, a monarchist and conservative newspaper, is dedicating their entire front pages to the PP corruption case, but after the first news on January 18 claiming for “el PP debe aclarar la verdad del caso Bárcenas” (PP must tell the truth about the Bárcenas case), they started defending the actions PP was taking.

ABC corruption coverage. Stripped areas means defense or positive framing.

I added a new layer to the visualization: whether newspaper were framing corruption neutral or negatively (plain areas) or defending and giving a positive view (stripped areas).

The conservative newspapers  (ABC,  La Razón, La Gaceta, but not El Mundo, that  had published the scoop) took a defensive position (Jan. 19-20). It is also worth noting that after El País released the excerpts of the parallel financial account (Jan. 31) La Gaceta, far to the right newspaper, stopped defending the PP.

It’s interesting to mention how ABC (1.20),  La Razón (1.21) and La Gaceta (1.17) published news dedicated to talk about corruption in general (purple color). Once the Bárcenas case was too big too avoid it, they framed the corruption as an extended disease. See here the three front pages:

In Spain, mass media are usually blamed for maintaining and supporting the bi-partisan system (PP-PSOE, both parties are the ones which have more corruption cases, check the Corruptodromo map). This time, some newspapers are playing a fundamental role unveiling corruption cases, but most of them keep reporting only about certain ones. Only a well-informed citizen, that escapes the biased point of view of its reference newspaper, can get the full picture of what is happening and react consequently.

The draft  of  the “Law on Transparency, Access to Public Information, and Good Governance” has been published recently in Spain. It contains many exceptions, that would narrow its scope and would not apply to some institutions such as the royal family or the political parties. Open-data and other advocacy groups are claiming for fundamental changes before it is approved. Meanwhile the President of Spain, and president of PP, Mariano Rajoy, pledged to provide “complete transparency” about the corruption case in a televised address, but, at the same time, he didn’t accept any questions.

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Note about the analysis: only the two most important news articles from every front page were analyzed. The cases of the Bank of Spain and NovaGalicia were left out of this visualization. You can also check the online version of this visualization.
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Thanks Rogelio Alejandro López for the copy-edit and to Elena. This post has been cross-posted to the Civic Media blog.

Ayer publiqué la cobertura en la prensa española de casos de corrupción, pero hacía falta un análisis cualitativo para entender en qué tono estaban escritas las portadas. Creo que llevaba a error pensar que cuando todos los periódicos hablaban de lo mismo decían lo mismo: unos defienden y los otros atacan o simplemente informan. Algo parecido hice sobre las movilizaciones sociales del mayo pasado cuando clasifiqué según las noticias eran informativas o editoriales en primera página sobre el 15M.

Esta vez he hecho una nueva taxonomía: artículo que defienden o valoran positivamente la actuación de un partido político y los que dan la información de manera más neutra o negativa. El umbral entre uno y otro es subjetivo, así que el criterio ha sido incluir solamente los casos en los que veía claro que eran una defensa o valoración positiva de una determinada noticia.

Se puede apreciar cómo la valoración positiva o defensa (área rayada en diagonal) es, básicamente, de los periódicos más conservadores (ABC, La Razón y La Gaceta) que defienden la actuación del PP. Hay varios métodos: dar razones para situar a Bárcenas fuera del PP o  apoyar los proyectos pro-transparencia de Mariano Rajoy y otros miembros del partido.

ABC, La Razón y La Gaceta coinciden también en dedicar al menos una portada a la ‘corrupción’ en genérico (área morada en el gráfico) en los cinco días posteriores del 17 de enero, que es cuando El Mundo publicó la noticia de los 22 millones de Bárcenas en Suiza. Es la táctica del “y el resto también”. El caso Bárcenas es demasiado grande como para ignorarlo, así que deben emplear otras tácticas diferentes de la del “avestruz” o el “y tú más”.

La actualización del gráfico incluye las portadas de este fin de semana, el periódico La Gaceta y algunas noticias que no estaban etiquetadas del primer análisis. Publico más abajo también un link al análisis cuantitativo.

Nota sobre al visualización: se ha realizado con la herramienta PageOneX, que analiza las portadas de prensa y mide el porcentaje del total que dedican a una determinada noticia. De cada portada se han seleccionado las dos noticias relacionadas con las corrupción más importantes. Se ha dejado fuera del estudio el caso de la caja NovaGalicia y el conflico del Banco de España.

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Actualización con portadas del 4 de febrero:
El caso de Bárcenas sigue siendo el monotema en portadas, en su defensa quedan solamente La Razón y ABC. La Gaceta pasa al ataque directo.

El mes de enero ha estado cargado de noticias de diferentes casos de corrupción que han afectado a los principales partidos políticos y a la casa real: Nóos, Pallerols, Baltar, Amy-Mulas, Gürtel, Pokemon, Lloret de Mar, Bárcenas… Es una oportunidad idónea para comprobar de una forma visual cómo cada periódico se alinea con un determinado partido o en contra de otro.

El mes tiene un marcado color azul (PP) por la cobertura de todos los medios del caso Bárcenas, pero también hay naranja (CiU) que con Pallerols y Lloret hacen doblete, rojo (PSOE) con el caso Amy-Mulas y el verde (Casa real) de Urdangarín y su Instituto Nóos. La cobertura es bastante desigual salvo cuando todo el coro canta al unísono en los estribillos del caso Bárcenas.

El método utilizado analiza las portadas de prensa y mide el porcentaje del total que dedican a una determinada noticia. De cada portada se han seleccionado las dos noticias relacionadas con las corrupción más importantes.

El País tiene una trayectoria constante: azul PP con algunos pequeños toques verdes Urdangarín y Revenga. Se mantiene constante su cobertura (10-20%)y, cuando llega su scoop, da toda su portada a los papeles de Bárcenas subrayados. El rojo PSOE no aparece por ningún lado, y los tejemanejes de Nóos y Urdangarín están pero en tamaño pequeño.

ABC, por las características de su portada con una imagen que lo ocupa casi todo, tiene siempre mayores porcentajes, superando a menudo el 50% de cobertura, hable del tema que hable, Es binario, o blanco o negro. Después de la aparición de la cuenta en Suiza de Bárcenas (17 de enero por El Mundo) le dedica dos portadas seguidas al tema, para luego hacer una, el día 20 de enero (morado), con un fotomontaje de corruptos de toda condición. Al siguiente, para compensar, saca a Griñán y sus EREs. Cabe señalar que cubrir una noticia de corrupción no significa que se esté criticando al partido en cuestión: el 22 de enero titula “Luz y taquígrafos” para anunciar que Rajoy realizará una auditoria externa e interna para “zanjar especulaciones”. Cerca del final dedica toda la portada a la fianza para los de Nóos, y cierra, como todos, con Bárcenas y sus papeles.

El Mundo es el más multicolor: le da a todo. Desde después de reyes no hay día que no hable de algún caso de corrupción. Al principo con naranja CiU, luego llega el periodo azul con la cuenta de Bárcenas en Suiza, toques de rojo con Amy-Mulas del PSOE combinados con verdes Nóos al final. Al final vuelve a los papeles de Bárcenas empujado por la exclusiva de El País.

Nota: se ha dejado fuera del estudio el caso de la caja NovaGalicia y el conflico del Banco de España.
La visualización se ha realizado con la herramienta PageOneX, actualmente en estado de desarollo.

Este manual ha sido realizado junto con @skotperez en Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, aunque muchos de los pasos son igualmente válidos para Windows y Mac.

1. Instalar apache 2
2. Instalar mySQL
3. Instalar phpMyAdmin (vía Ubuntu Software Center)
4. Crear base de datos
   Hay dos caminos posibles:
   1. Desde phpMyAdmin:
      1. Puedes acceder a la base de datos vía phpMyAdmin en http://localhost/phpmyadmin
      2. Haz login con el usuario y contraseña con el que hayas configurado mySQL. En mi caso el usuario es root.
      3. Crea base de datos “Create new database“. Pon un nombre a tu base de datos. Collation y utf8 están bien como opciones por defecto
      4. Entra en la base de datos a través del manú de la izquierda y vete a la pestaña “privileges” para crear un usuario y contraseña.
   2. Desde mysql:
      1. Si el comando
         mysqlno te funciona, prueba con
         mysql -h localhost -u root
      2. Una vez dentro de la consola de mysql:
         CREATE DATABASE sname_of_database;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON name_of_database.*
TO 'name_of_database'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'databasepassword';
SHOW GRANTS FOR 'name_of_database'@'localhost';
      3. Puedes comprobar que la base de datos se ha creado con el comando:
         SHOW DATABASES;
      4. Sal de mysql con
         exit
5. Descarga wordpress http://wordpress.org/download/ y descomprime el zip. En mi caso en la carpeta /home/numeroteca/wordpress
6. Cambio el nombre de wp-config-sample.php por wp-config.php. Pongo los datos de la recién creada base de datos en el wp-config.php. Que quedará como:
   define('DB_NAME', 'name_of_database')
define('DB_USER', 'name_of_database');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'databasepassword')
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
7. El directorio por defecto de apache es /var/www/
   Todo lo que hay en ese directorio es visible desde http://localhost. Para no tener que trasladar todos los archivos de wordpress a la carpeta /var/www/ creamos una liga blanda (o enlace simbólico) desde allí:
   1. Navegamos hasta ahí /var/www/
      cd /var/www/
   2. Creamos liga blanda:
      ln -s /home/path/to/the_files/where/wordpress/files/are
      Por ejemplo
      ln -s /home/numeroteca/wordpress
8. Ahora si vas a http://localhost/wordpress podrás acceder al wordpress y realizar la instalación (si el wp-config.php está bien configurado).

Actualización 15 de marzo 2013: Si después de instalar worpdress añades carpetas al tema en que estás trabajando (me pasó añadiendo las carpetas de bootstrap a un tema), si estás no tienen los permisos neesario, el navegador no podrá leerlas. Asegúrate de darles permisos con: chmod a+rwx nombre-de-carpeta (lo vi en webtechquery.com)

Actualización 30 de marzo 2013: Esto de los permisos tiene más jugo. Para poder actualizar los plugins tienes que cambiar el propietario de los archivos de wordpress. (solución vía varios post, entre otros este).

Para saber quién es el propietario al que tienes que otorgarle los permisos, inserta  <?php echo(exec("whoami")); ?> en cualquiera de las páginas de wordpress.

Mira en el navegador a ver qué sale como resultado del echo “who I am”. En micaso es “www-data”. Por lo tanto deberás cambiar los el propietario de la carpeta donde tienes instalado el wordpess a “www-data” (change owner = chown):

sudo chown -hR www-data carpeta-donde-tienes-instalado-wordpress/*

[no lo he probado, pero probablemente no haga falta cambiar el propietario de todas carpetas de tu instalación de wordpress, sino solo unas pocas].
Esta acción cambiará el propietario detodos los archivos y carpetas, de forma que cuando vayas a editar tu tema de wordpress o el wp-config.php no te dejará salvarlo. Para eso tienes que otorgarte de nuevo la propiedad de esos archivos o carpetas utilizando el mismo método. Por ejemplo, para que el archivo wp-config.php vuelva a ser de tu propiedad (tu usuario de ubuntu, en mi caso “numeroteca”):

sudo chown -hR numeroteca wp-config.php

También puede funcionar añadir al wp-config.php la línea, como sugieren por ahí cuando no tienes acceso ftp, me funcionó en otra instalación:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

It is a good time to give back all the things I have learnt from WordPress. Today I’ll be giving an introductory class with cardboard folder and data bases in the Festival of Learning 2013 at Media Lab. More info + session.

This is a side project to the 6.000km map, a kind of wiki to collect info about urban metabolism in the era of the real estate bubble in Spain. Soon, we will have updated photos of some of these places, that we just took in Madrid with balloon mapping techniques.

How to

Script in Processing (based on Josh Begley):

String[] paus;
void setup() {
}
void draw() {
paus = loadStrings("locations-latlon.csv");
for(int i = 0; i < paus.length; i++) {
String[] values = split(paus[i], ",");
String lat = values[0];
String lon = values[1];
String id = values[2];
PImage test = getSatImage(lat,lon);
test.save(id + ".jpg");
}
}
PImage getSatImage(String lat, String lon) {
String url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=" + lat + "," + lon + "&zoom=15&scale=1&size=640x640&maptype=satellite&sensor=false&junk=.jpg";
return(loadImage(url));
}


The locations-latlon.csv file should be in the same sketch folder. I downloaded the spreadsheet as a .csv (comma-separated value) file. I took the longitude/latitude data from OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.0472&lon=-3.92153&zoom=16&layers=M, you can see it in the url bar once you click in the “permalink” (bottom right).

locations-latlon.csv file content:
40.36332,-3.59496,PAU-Vallecas
40.37517,-3.5781,Berrocales
40.38853,-3.56213,Ahijones
40.33877,-3.67835,Butarque
40.49262,-3.61353,Valdebebas
40.39427,-3.5939,Vicalvaro extension
40.3839,-3.53158,Rivas
40.49239,-3.72772,Arroyo del Fresno
40.45397,-3.90759,Majadahonda
40.50246,-3.51321,Miramadrid-Paracuellos
40.58802,-3.10602,Valdeluz
40.99801,-4.11742,La Encina (Bernuy de Porreros)
40.87828,-4.68457,Villanueva de Gomez. Ávila
38.79932,-4.07395,Villa Mayor de Calatrava. Ciudad Real
38.87209,-3.97485,Pologono Industrial aeropuerto Ciudad Real
39.0472,-3.92153,El Reino de Don Quijote


Once you run the processing script it will automatically generate all the .jpg files based on the locations-latlon.csv. Now it is easy to output different kinds of images with a few tweaks using the style feature of the googlemaps API. If we change the line:

String url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=" + lat + "," + lon + "&zoom=15&scale=1&size=640x640&maptype=satellite&sensor=false&junk=.jpg";
by
String url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=" + lat + "," + lon + "&zoom=15&scale=1&size=640x640&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false&junk=.png";

You’ll have to change also the line to autput a .png file
test.save id + ".jpg");
by
test.save( id + ".png");

We have now the same tiles, but with the roadmap view. This has been been fun, but we are not using interesting features from the googlemaps API. We can go further, and, by using the element selection, we can adjust colors and visibility. We need to change the line again and add some styling code:

String url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=" + lat + "," + lon + "&zoom=15&scale=1&size=640x640&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false&style=feature:road%7Clement:labels.text
%7Chue:0xff0000%7Csaturation:25%7Clightness:-40&style=feature:landscape%7Celement:geometry
%7Clightness:-100&style=feature:all%7Celement:labels%7Chue:0x0000ff
%7Clightness:-100%7Cvisibility:off&junk=.png";


We are able to decide the color or visibility of every element in the map, in the same way we’d do with http://mapbox.com/ using OpenStreetMap as data provider. We are now ready to start a quiz of PAU (Plan de Actuación Urbanística) recognition. Pending: try the same with OSM data!
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Thanks Charlie for the link to http://prisonmap.com/