Month: March 2008
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Alltop is Popurls for everything
Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter. Myself included. And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at…
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I like it when you’re angry
So I’m the last person in the world to blog about AngryJournalist.com, a good (albeit a little twisted) deed done by Kiyoshi Martinez to give folks a place to vent in public, anonymously. While I would certainly prefer that you do something potentially productive with your time other than whine about how little of it…
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SXSW: Steven Johnson Unveils Outside.in Newsfeed – The Praized Blog
Want to see a page of local blogs aggregated and mapped by location? Sure you do. And you want it to just work. Outside.in is working on it… SXSW: Steven Johnson Unveils Outside.in Newsfeed – The Praized Blog
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How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) – Jason Calacanis
Yes to chairs, no phones, and the espresso machine, please. How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) – Jason Calacanis
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Hallelujah – clapclap.org
A detailed essay on the lineage of “Hallelujah” covers proceeding from the Leonard Cohen original, with many notes on their usage in movies and television since the mid-1990s. via Kottke, i think. Hallelujah – clapclap.org
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It’s not the economy, stupid
I’m sorry, but every time a newspaper executive discussing layoffs and buyouts blames things like “a drastic economic slump and the meltdown of the Bay Area housing market” I laugh. Are you kidding? Is that a joke? Your profits are shrinking because The World Has Passed You By. For more than ten years newspaper companies…
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Videos | Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field
Videos | Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field
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RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
Mike’s thoughtful (and painful) take on the falling fortunes of the Merc go into some detail about the organizational challenges faced by those who would innovate there if they were free to. RIP Mercury News – Michael Bazeley
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From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial – Part III: Template Theming, Integration and Finishing Touches. – Nick Sergeant
Nick puts the finishing touches on his Drupal tutorial series. From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial – Part III: Template Theming, Integration and Finishing Touches. – Nick Sergeant
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Mercury falling
[NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don’t pretend to know…