Month: October 2009
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YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener
“YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.” YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener
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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
Derek Powazek’s essay on SEO makes an incredible amount of sense, but what he sees as “obvious” is still “new” to many on the Web. They just need a little help. Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
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Go.USA.gov
Yes, the United States government now has its own URL shortener. And a list of what’s popular. Go.USA.gov
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The diaspora of information
Given: Dan Gillmor famously stated (and I’m paraphrasing from memory): “My readers know more than I do.” I like to take it an order of magnitude up into the branches of the tree, along these lines: “The diaspora of information (having been set free by the Web, mostly) knows infinitely more than I do.” So…
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Journalism conferences are too expensive
Mallory Colliflower and Lori Marie Todd argue that, yes, your journalism conference, with all its hotel rooms, wireless access, big-name keynotes, and banquet dinners is incredibly expensive at a time when newsrooms are cutting back to the barest of bones. Journalism conferences are too expensive
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Share Folders in Google Docs
Seems useful for small/student newsrooms using Google Docs as their file management system, right? Share Folders in Google Docs
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So You’re Moving to San Francisco — Alex Payne
Alex shares a bit of what I think about San Francisco when I visit, although my gripes usually revolve around the simple fact that San Francisco is not New York, and thus, not my town. So You’re Moving to San Francisco — Alex Payne
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Grad school update
Remember when I went to graduate school at San Jose State University to get an M.S. in Mass Communications? Well, I finished. Here’s the proof, which arrived in the mail a few days ago:
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A peek behind Technically Philly’s Knight Grant Application
A featured Wired Journalists post by Sean Blanda covering the backstory of Technically Philly’s Knight News Challenge grant. A peek behind Technically Philly’s Knight Grant Application