Malema drama: Tweets mapped
Threw together this interactive map showing Tweets from Johannesburg CBD near Luthuli House relating to the street drama around ANCY Youth League President Julius Malema's pending disciplinary hearing due to take place there.
Zoom in and out of the map to get Tweets with the #malema hashtag from a broader geographic area. Click on icons to view tweets.
Indian restaurants of Gauteng [Map]
So, on Saturday morning after I tweeted about my world map of freedom of information law, Simone Puterman of BizCommunity sent me a cheeky DM via twitter challenging me to produce a similar map of Indian restaurants in Jo'burg.
Well I had a few idle minutes this afternoon so I whipped up a little webscrapper, scraped this information from the online EatOut guide and put it into into a Google Fusion table which did a pretty decent job of producing a map, not just of the Indian restaurants (or at least those which are produced searching for such cuisine on EatOut) but for the whole of Gauteng. There's a couple of unresolved addresses from the 40-odd that I grabbed which could be easily fixed manually for anyone who wants to collaborate on the table data which is here.
Total production time for this map +- 10 minutes.
A nice example, I think, of the power of Google Fusion.
So here you go Simone.
Freedom of Information around the world (MAP)
I was doing some research this morning for a presentation I have to do next week and came across a great paper on Freedom of Information around world. I took the information and imported it into a Google Fusion table to produce this map which shows the 90 countries around the world with freedom of information laws. Fascinatingly, Sweden was the first country in the world with FOI law way back in 1766 with Columbia next nearly 120 years later.
I hope you find this a useful resource. Full data here
Scridb filterNational Health Insurance Green paper
If, like me, you have struggled to find the Green Paper for the SA government's proposed National Health Insurance scheme here it is.
Nhi Green Paper 2
A bird? A plane? An ANCYL apology? Maybe…
A couple of days ago there was a bit of a storm over some recorded comments of ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu in which he told my colleague Jacques Dommisse to repeatedly "fuck off" during an interview.
This morning Shivambu released this statement which I reproduce here in all its unedited glory. Some things simply need no comment.
Scridb filterSTATEMENT ON THE NEWS 24 JOURNALIST AND ATTEMPTS TO DIVERT THE ANC YL FROM ITS MISSION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME:
14 July 2011
The NC Youth League has noted attempts by various sections of the media, particularly the right-wing, Afrikaans media to divert the attention of the organisation from the critical and core issues the organisation engages concerning socio-political and economic transformation. Since the ANC YL 24th National Congress, sections of the media realised that they cannot provide intellectually sound engagement of the ANC Youth League policy positions, chose instead to focus on individuals and pry on private non-related issues about leaders of the ANC Youth League. They also chose to engage in disgustingly provocative methods and means of engagement with the ANC YL, aimed at diverting attention from the core issues resolved and re-affirmed by the 24th National Congress.
The recent past incident of a News 24 Journalist who was disgustingly making a media enquiry with the ANC YL is unfortunate and will never happen again. The incident does not represent the attitude of the ANC YL to the media in general, but was a specific incident which was unfortunate and will never happen again. The ANC YL will continue to have professional relationship with the media, and once again makes a humble plea that media should not confuse disrespectful and disgusting methods of engagement with honest media enquiries. In this regard, we will not be taking media enquiries about the News 24 Journalist and the unfortunate incident, because they do not represent anything the ANC YL stands for.
The programme for economic freedom in our lifetime should never be diverted by incidents which are not part of the political programme. Our focus and emphasis are on nationalisation of Mines, expropriation of land without compensation, provision of free education and all the vital components of the programme of action for economic freedom in our lifetime.
Issued by the ANC Youth League
Contact Floyd Shivambu—0828199474