Month: September 2008
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Cross-pollinate or shrivel
I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes. But none…
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Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
Annotations to the James Bennett book. Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
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palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
A manifesto on news-driven-development, built around the concrete example of presenting data from the LA train crash last Friday as evergreen information, rather than a series of text blobs. palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
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mattwaite.com | My annotated guide to DjangoCon videos
Thank @mattwaite for posting these notes on sessions at the (first ever?) Django conference. Required viewing here includes lessons on geodjango. mattwaite.com | My annotated guide to DjangoCon videos
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On IdeaLab: Can the political press grow a spine with a little help from you?
I interviewed Jay Rosen today on IM about his spinewatch project, which encourages journalists, bloggers, and citizens in general to point out moments when the political press on the campaign trail shows evidence of needing to grow one, or of having grown one. Jay: “But the rules and assumptions underlying the fact checking regime are…
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eat, drink & be vegan: Pizza on the Grill
Grilled pizza. This one’s vegan, but some fresh mozzarella or goat cheese wouldn’t hurt. eat, drink & be vegan: Pizza on the Grill
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Dodo’s Text Counter (requires jQuery)
Another jquery twitter-esque text countdown script. Starting with this for now, although I need ways to control what happens when the counter hits zero. Dodo’s Text Counter (requires jQuery)
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5 JavaScript Tricks Made Easy with jQuery
A JS snippet to count down characters in a textbox, a la Twitter. 5 JavaScript Tricks Made Easy with jQuery
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My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered
From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment. I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies. Well, fail. Epic fail. Why? Because, frankly,…