Year: 2008
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Minor redesign of this here blog
I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork. Major goals of this minor redesign included: Play with the header graphic. (Done.) Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.) Clean things up, remove some…
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What your news organization can learn from the Crunchberry project
First, two items for the glossary so I can make sorted references to mixed berries in this post: Crunchberry.org = The virtual home of the Medill J-School’s Knight News Challenge grantee programmer/journalists. Newsmixer.us = The demo of the community conversation application the Crunchberry team built for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, a newspaper in Iowa which…
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The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
Pew study (looks like a survey of influentials/”experts”) with some relevant findings: Future of Intarwebs = mobile, and will not save the world for you. The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
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On IdeaLab: DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year)
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what’s going on with ReportingOn, which is to say, there’s not much going on with ReportingOn. For now. My Knight News Challenge-funded project to connect journalists on the same topical beat with their peers launched on October 1. I continued development work on it through the month…
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TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool
Danny Sanchez built this handsome little tool for those of us that occassionally need to turn spreadsheet data into HTML tables. (Because tabular data still requires tables, folks.) TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool
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Thoughts on the Tribune bankruptcy
I came back to an office in the suburbs of Chicago yesterday from a lunch with colleagues to the news that The Tribune Company had filed for bankruptcy. (A journalist told me. Pretty sure it was the NYTimes Dealbook blog I spotted on her screen.) Thoughts: This has little to do with Sam Zell’s abrasive…
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I forget useful code, but Snipt remembers.
If you’re anything like me, you’re not really a Web developer by trade, but you push around a little bit of code on an extremely regular basis. And often, it’s the same little bits of code over and over again. And every time you need to use it, you go flipping through text files, Google…
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Vegetarians in Paradise/Vegan Hannukkah/Vegetarian Hannukah Dinner/Hanukkah Vegan Recipes
A couple good things here, notably a decent looking mock chopped liver and solid borscht instructions. Vegetarians in Paradise/Vegan Hannukkah/Vegetarian Hannukah Dinner/Hanukkah Vegan Recipes