🔶 #41: "A system for mapping, curating, and distributing civic information at scale."

Hello and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

I don't know how other people manage their newsletter's operations, but I have a file in Google Sheets with seventeen different tabs:

In one tab I keep track of the newsletters I send;

In another one I save links that might be interesting to share with you in upcoming editions;

Then there's the one where I track the analytics of the newsletter (my guilty pleasure is spending an awful lot of unproductive time staring at bar charts, line charts, and scatter plots, wondering how to make them prettier – that degree in Statistics I got fifteen years ago might have had a deeper impact on me than I thought...);

The one where I keep track of the interactions I have with readers inside and outside the inbox; and so on.

Last week I noticed that the 'Links' tab was A) overflowing and a complete mess, B) full of great links I've saved in the last few months and then totally forgot about because every week there are new interesting links that catch my attention.

So today I'm making amends to those forgotten links by picking some of the best ones that shouldn't go un-shared any longer. Consider it a sort of ICYMI edition.

By the way, tomorrow is my birthday! 🎂 Do you want to help me celebrate? 🎁 Forward this newsletter to a colleague and tell them to sign up. The chart in the 'Members' tab is going to look so good after they join us.

Enjoy the links, and see you next week 📚