Month: February 2009
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San Francisco
Yesterday, news broke that Hearst will close the San Francisco Chronicle if it a) can’t dramatically reduce costs (read as: cut payroll in half) or b) find a buyer (it won’t). Analysis: Alan Mutter Mark Potts Ken Doctor Although it is likely that you will hear and see a copious amount of handwringing in the…
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From the height of this place – Jonathan Rosenberg
Google’s SVP of product management, in a memo rewritten for public use. The bits about journalism have been quoted in the last week, but not the most interesting ones. Read the whole section and you’ll see what I mean, perhaps. From the height of this place – Jonathan Rosenberg
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Thanks, Howard.
As you may or may not have heard by now, my boss at the office, Howard Owens, has moved on. I just want to take a moment to publicly say thanks to Howard here, and more than obviously, to wish him the best in whatever endeavor other people might call his “job” next. Personally, I…
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Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting plugin – WordPress Plugins
Could be an improvement on PodPress. Worth a look. Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting plugin – WordPress Plugins
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Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
Pat rocks out an intermediate level Twitter for reporting screencast so I don’t have to. (Actually, I have to, but I’ll pass along Pat’s as well.) Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
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Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices – andydickinson.net
A good tutorial on how to route data from a Google Spreadsheet (with no lat/long data) through Yahoo Pipes for geocoding purposes, and then out to Google Maps. One nitpick: I couldn’t get this to work with the RSS feed from Pipes; I used the KML instead. Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices –…