Year: 2008
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See you in Vegas?
I can’t believe it’s Friday already, which means I’m just a couple days away from hopping a flight to Las Vegas for the massive SND/APME conference. Check out the schedule of speakers at SND for starters and drool: DeVigal. Curley. Veen. The “Young Voices” panel I’m on (yes, yes, they know I have a gray…
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Dealing with the elephant, elsewhere
Paul Bradshaw comes up with a list of 10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers: “…how about a slot against the ‘most popular’ story of that minute (if it helps, think of it as the equivalent as the front page ad), second most popular, and so on (you could even auction these slots…
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Things to do…
Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future: Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it. Like, really, really soon. Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go to some awesome sessions and pimp ReportingOn to every editor I meet. Write the first…
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The Lyceum Project
A different way to host multiple (i.e. hundreds of) WordPress blogs. The Lyceum Project
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Summer vacation
I’m headed down to Venezuela for a break, leaving the laptop behind with plans to build some sandcastles with my girls. Stay out of trouble, people. On second thought, start some. Last time I was in Caracas:
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The best newspaper webcast I’ve seen yet: Ledger Live
Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast? It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video. No one — and I mean no one — wants to…
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Django Tagging – Napes.
A friendly-looking recent tutorial on using the Django Tagging python module. Django Tagging – Napes.
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Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.
This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses. The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here. Suggest which windmill I should…
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What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
Merlin Mann, via @jkottke. Includes: “4. Good blog posts are made of paragraphs. Blog posts are written, not defecated. They show some level of craft, thinking, and continuity beyond the word count mandated by the Owner of Your Plantation.” What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders