Year: 2008
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Modernize your newsroom today
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.” Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today. Here are 5. Use Google Documents (or…
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Smart single-copy sales
In the IHT, via Romenesko: “Now The Standard is fighting back, using a new, cashless payment system to try to make it easier for Londoners to buy the paper, even if they do not have the necessary 50 pence, or $1, in their pockets. Instead of handing over a coin or two, readers touch a…
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The one dollar newspaper
Call me some sort of radical, but here’s a simple proposal that I think could provide newspapers with a big boost in single copy sales, and profits, too: On the rack or in the box, your newspaper now costs one dollar. When was the last time you paid less than a dollar for a bottle…
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Your real competition
You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case. Oh, sure, your ad reps and…
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CJR: Secrets of the City
Great story connected to The Wire, but more about big city newspapers, conflicts, opportunities, context. CJR: Secrets of the City
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woork: Twitter: send message from a PHP page using Twitter API
More pieces of the puzzle. woork: Twitter: send message from a PHP page using Twitter API
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TwitBlog: Syndicating Twitter to My Blog : kadavy.net
There’s a useful hunk of script here, I do declare. TwitBlog: Syndicating Twitter to My Blog : kadavy.net
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Google apps for your newsroom at Matt Croydon::Postneo
Notes on using Google spreadsheets and maps for quick data collaboration at LJWorld.com Google apps for your newsroom at Matt Croydon::Postneo
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Politweets – When Twitter gets political
Site is running searches (through tweetscan or on its own?) for all candidate names, pulling the feeds, parsing the XML into this well-designed display. Very cool. Politweets – When Twitter gets political