Year: 2008
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Howard Weaver’s exit interview
I was struck by a few things in Howard Weaver’s post announcing that he’s leaving McClatchy — and journalism — at the end of the year. For one thing, Howard’s a damn fine writer. I haven’t agreed with everything he’s said or done as I’ve followed his blog for the last couple years, but I…
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Hosting Subversion on Webfaction : Blog : Ryan Berg
Good information here that seems like something I’ll need shortly. Hosting Subversion on Webfaction : Blog : Ryan Berg
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Relative readability / Wilson Miner
Wilson’s notes on redesigning with much larger type. I’m increasingly going this route. Relative readability / Wilson Miner
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Yes, I’m still talking about Twitter
Three links about Twitter you should see if you haven’t yet: Guy Kawasaki on How to use Twitter as a Twool. Katherine Boehret writes YASEOT (yet another simple explanation of Twitter), but it’s at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site, so your editor and publisher will read it this time. Old Media New Tricks has…
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Sometimes, robots just aren’t enough
TechMeme adds a human editor to make adjustments when the algorithm fails: “Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table — humans can’t possibly discover and organize news as fast…
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You are the future of journalism. Aren’t you?
Without much preamble, I highly recommend you enter Publish2’s “Are you the future of journalism?” contest, wherein you can WIN A JOB. Considering how many journalists lost their jobs today, and how many likely will lose their jobs tomorrow, and how many have lost their jobs this year, I’m betting there’s a pretty big pool…
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Dear Blogosphere, There’s more to newspapers than The New York Times
I’ve been holding back on this for a long time, and I write enough about the Web development team at nytimes.com enough to be held to this as well, but really, I’m incredibly tired of reading media and technology bloggers debate the future of news as if the only existing newspaper in the world is…