Washingtonpost.com just launched Faces of the Fallen, another great piece of database journalism. (A few months ago they published an Alito archive and a database of congressional votes. )
The RSS is a particularly nice feature – it gives people a way to connect to the report, as opposed to coming once, and never again.
Adrian asks what he can do to improve the report. I think it’s pretty great, but I think the next step is to study YouTube – to figure out how to package and distribute the most salient pieces of the database.
It’s a micro-chunked, article-level web. My friends get their news from the clip line above their Gmail. They’re not going to spend a lot of time wandering through a database, but they should see pages like this one (things over there are only getting worse).
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