Year: 2006
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In search of the transcendent taqueria – SF Chronicle
The best Bay Area burritos, although he doesn’t go any further south than Half Moon Bay. In search of the transcendent taqueria – SF Chronicle
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Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox – MediaShift
The AP video player on many, many news sites will soon be available to Firefox and Safari users. Yay. Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox – MediaShift
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Burning Questions • A Peek Inside TechCrunch’s 100k Subscriber Milestone
A good explanation of how FeedBurner tracks subscriptions, using TechCrunch as an example. Burning Questions • A Peek Inside TechCrunch’s 100k Subscriber Milestone
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SJSU to ban Skype – Steve Sloan
My university computing department has a real complex about bandwidth. SJSU to ban Skype – Steve Sloan
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I just checked in to see what condition my condition was in
My thesis proposal was conditionally approved yesterday, which means I can go ahead and start navigating the murky waters of the human subjects paperwork required by IRB. Once that’s in motion, I’ll make the expected changes that the committee wants, and submit the updates to my primary advisor. Meanwhile, the Sloan/McCune New Media class and…
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More on student media server options
Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media provides a roadmap of server/hosting options for student papers, including those looking to stray from the College Publisher herd. There are pros and cons to each choice, and Bryan does a great job of laying out what you’ll need to know, who you’ll need to trust, and what you’ll…
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The Spartan Daily is blogging
Meanwhile, back at the Spartan Daily, SJSU’s student newspaper, Daniel Sato and Neal Waters (I’m guessing they both had a hand in this) appear to have taken a few days off from their redesign of the online edition of the Daily to set up a WordPress blog for the paper. Sports Editor Andrew Torrez live-blogged…
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The Internet is for democracy
The Center for Citizen Media has lifted the curtain on what it’s planning to do with a Sunlight Foundation grant. It’s a political transparency project, with the goal of gathering everything there is to know about this year’s race for the 11th congressional district here in California, featuring incumbent Richard Pombo (R-Tracy). All nonpartisan caveats…
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‘NYT’ Names DeVigal Multimedia Editor for Web Newsroom
I missed this somewhere along the line last month, but SFSU prof. Andrew DeVigal got tapped to head up the New York Times multimedia department. Wow. Congrats. ‘NYT’ Names DeVigal Multimedia Editor for Web Newsroom
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Campaign 2006: Contributions to the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates
Maps mashup with campaign finance data. Drool. Campaign 2006: Contributions to the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates