Comments on: Interaction on business news websites

By: Barómetro de conversação | Conversation Barometer « O Lago | The Lake

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:27:37 +0000

[...] le baromètre de l’interactivité, construit par Joanna Geary et amélioré par l’équipe de l’Online Journalism Blog, voici le [...]

By: Índice de Interactividade | Interactivity Index « O Lago | The Lake

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:50:10 +0000

[...] sobre o grau de interactividade dos sites informativos, a partir de um primeiro estudo feito pela Joana Geary. Apesar de estar incompleto e a precisar de uma uniformização de dados, as primeiras conclusões [...]

By: Hoe interactief zijn Europese kranten? | Jaap Stronks

Hoe interactief zijn Europese kranten? | Jaap Stronks — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:22:07 +0000

[...] van de mate van interactiviteit van Europese kranten., zie ook Poynter. Het is gebaseerd op een onderzoek naar de interactieve elementen van Engelse kranten – podcasting, social networking, Twitter, [...]

By: European News Interactivity Index «

European News Interactivity Index « — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:44:39 +0000

[...] português, Alexandre Gamela), que toma como ponto de partida um estudo académico desenvolvido por Joanna Geary – o European News Interactivity Index compara os sites de vários jornais e, com o auxílio de uma [...]

By: The European News Interactivity Index : Journalism.co.uk editors blog

The European News Interactivity Index : Journalism.co.uk editors blog — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:32:59 +0000

[...] The project is an extension of the work by Birmingham Post reporter and blogger Joanna Geary, who looked at the use of interactive tools by business news sites. [...]

By: My graph is to be published! « Joanna Geary

My graph is to be published! « Joanna Geary — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:24:53 +0000

[...] Bradshaw, Poynter Online, Romania, World Editors’ Forum The graph I created looking at the interactive features of UK business news websites has recieved a surprising amount of attention in recent [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:08:58 +0000

Hi Jo – I know you’ve finished this now (!), so I just thought I’d post the link for the blog it only took two months to get started:

http://blogs.birminghammail.net/technobabble/

cheers m’dear!

By: hemminac

hemminac — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:59:59 +0000

Right….to change the colour of the chart in Open Office Calc

* Left click on the data series you wish to change the colour of, until you can see little blue squares on all the corresponding data of that colour. (otherwise it won’t work!)

* Right Click

* Select “Object properties”

* Select the “Area” tab at the top

…and from there you can change the “fill” colour of that data series.

Unfortunately, the colour choice isn’t that big….but at least you could get rid of the worst offenders/group the shading.

And if none of this makes sense….twitter so!

By: hemminac

hemminac — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:23:48 +0000

OpenOffice Calc will do the job….this site seems to show how to change the colours *before* you create the graph.

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1171394,00.html#

I’ve only got MS Excel here at work – but I’m sure Openoffice should also allow you to right click on the chart block you want to change and edit the data series colour somehow…….

http://www.learnopenoffice.org/CalcTutorial23.htm

…..suggests that!

Will check @ home later if nobody else has the answer…..I’ve got O/O Calc installed there.

By: joannageary

joannageary — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:00:42 +0000

Hi Stig,

Thanks for your comments. I agree with you completely.

I am afraid the answer to why the colours are as they are is purely down to my lack of knowledge of Openoffice.org Calc.

Although I can create a graph, I can not seem to choose which colours to display.

If someone could help me with this, or suggest another software package (pref. open source) that would do a better job, I would really appreciate it!