Year: 2006
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ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress
Totally potentially useful WordPress hack. ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress
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CBS News Blog – Outside Voices: Dan Gillmor On The New Principles Of A More Diverse Media Ecosystem
“The search for objectivity makes some sense in a media ecosystem that lacks diversity. If a few voices overwhelm all the others, there is a public interest in playing stories as allegedly down the middle as possible…” CBS News Blog – Outside Voices: Dan Gillmor On The New Principles Of A More Diverse Media Ecosystem
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Salam Pax audio is online
One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here. An excerpt from…
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Online journalism roundup – Editors Weblog
A good overview of some recent action, including Dan Gillmor’s move to Backfence, Steve Outing’s new project, and a few international angles. Online journalism roundup – Editors Weblog
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Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?
“We learned that good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity, and when Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you positive reinforcement.” Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?
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Notes on the perils of constructed objectivity
I mentioned objectivity a few posts ago, with the promise that I’d get around to putting up something I wrote on the topic for a class. I’m not going into the details of “What’s a literature review?” and I’m certainly ignoring the question “What’s a mini-lit-review?” For your enjoyment, here’s my short literature review on…
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Protection coming for California college media?
In today’s Spartan Daily, the student newspaper here at San Jose State University, former Daily executive editor John Myers reports that a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would make it more difficult for university officials to censor campus media outlets. Myers wrote that Leland Yee, the sponsor of the…
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McClatchy chief gives new acquisition a pep talk
“Pruitt said each newspaper in the chain will have local autonomy over daily operations, so readers and the public should see few changes as a result of the change in ownership. No job cuts or buyouts are anticipated, he said.” McClatchy chief gives new acquisition a pep talk
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Mike Davidson: Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace
Prettify that ugly MySpace profile, just for the exercise. Mike Davidson: Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace