Year: 2009
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The A Word: Information and Activism – MediaShift Idea Lab
Christopher Csikszentmihályi from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media talks about co-teaching a class on building mobile tools for social change. (The applications mentioned in this post are probably the most innovative work going on in the field today. If want to get a good solid idea of what the future of journalism and activism…
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BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType
Want to import Tweets, FriendFeed posts, Diggs, etc. that link to your post as comments in WordPress? Done. BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType
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21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs @ SmashingApps
Can you believe we used to use Flash for this? 21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs @ SmashingApps
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At IdeaLab: Paul Bradshaw on crowdsourcing investigative journalism
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there. Until now. After playing the modern equivalent of phone tag (Twitter DMs and e-mail across two operating systems and one ocean) for a week or so, Paul Bradshaw and I landed…
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What’s the most important reason news organizations should link out to the wider Web?
http://www.publish2.com/tips/submit?reset=1&form_id=45 Hey RSS readers, click on through to answer the question if you don’t mind. Trying to gather some ideas for a post I’m working on. Thank you!
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Dean Singleton on the plight of the major metro
[UPDATE: Predictably, this was the wrong day to bring this up.] I get the feeling people think of MediaNews* CEO (and AP chairman) Dean Singleton as some sort of billionaire boogeyman, the last guy in the world you’d want buying your news organization, but his take on why newspapers in major metro markets are failing…
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Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
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Single Column Lists Take More Pages, But Achieve Better Results – MediaPost
An eyetracking study shows that reads have a much easier time scanning down a Twitter/FF/FB-like one-column list than a three-column version. Single Column Lists Take More Pages, But Achieve Better Results – MediaPost
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Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On – Gizmodo
Another step toward electronic paper: this Plastic Logic prototype has a working touchscreen. Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On – Gizmodo