Month: May 2006
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Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.
MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool. What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool. Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations…
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Microsoft Typography – Font foundries
List of links to free font foundries. Microsoft Typography – Font foundries
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XML.com: Dynamic News Stories
Adrian Holvaty proposes some simple tags that would code bits of useful metadata into online news stories. XML.com: Dynamic News Stories
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KQED | Forum: Gay Talese
Listen to Talese, who wrote for the NY Times when “New Journalism” came of age, riff on writing, reporting, and his own career. KQED | Forum: Gay Talese
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Serendipity on the Web
Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…
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SJSU JMC Geek Dinner next Tuesday
Steve Sloan, Cynthia McCune, and other folks will all be getting together at Tony Soprano’s Pizzeria this Tuesday at 6pm to talk about plans for JOUR 163, a course on producing new media for the web that will be offered next semester in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU. Steve says he’ll…
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Palo Alto Weekly is hiring two staff writers
Mmmmmm. Palo Alto City Hall. And land use. Palo Alto Weekly is hiring two staff writers
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Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times
Story’s ho-hum, but that’s our very own Prof. Craig… Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times