Year: 2008
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Everything you know about online news design is wrong?
Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.” “The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it off with the infamous siren. [snip] Stories aren’t…
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Slides from django-nyc on 11/18/2008 @ Irrational Exuberance
Really good resource for understanding some of the documentation I’ve been reading recently, including things like local_settings.py. via megan taylor Slides from django-nyc on 11/18/2008 @ Irrational Exuberance
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Knight News Release Workshop | Knight Foundation Communications Portal
Knight News Release Workshop | Knight Foundation Communications Portal
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Further notes on how investigative journalism continues in online-only news organizations
From a New York Times story on VoiceOfSanDiego.org and other onlne-only local news organizations doing original reporting and investigative journalism: The people who run the local news sites see themselves as one future among many, and they have a complex relationship with traditional media. The say that the deterioration of those media has created an…
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Who’s hiring? Blogs.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009: “So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White…
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JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
Mmmmm – Add a JSON model to your Django app for easy export. JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
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Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties? SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com. “Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work…
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Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup
Know what Foo Camp is? Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me. Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…
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Notes from Sergey Brin and Chris Anderson on building participatory systems to scale
Chris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale. It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles: “But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say…