Year: 2009
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Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
Pat rocks out an intermediate level Twitter for reporting screencast so I don’t have to. (Actually, I have to, but I’ll pass along Pat’s as well.) Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
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Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices – andydickinson.net
A good tutorial on how to route data from a Google Spreadsheet (with no lat/long data) through Yahoo Pipes for geocoding purposes, and then out to Google Maps. One nitpick: I couldn’t get this to work with the RSS feed from Pipes; I used the KML instead. Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices –…
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Clay Shirky on micropayments for online news
I am very specifically not enjoying the current wave of handwringing over whether or not some version of micropayments, online subscription, or paywalls could work for typical U.S. news organizations. But here’s Clay Shirky: “The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase ‘nickel-and-dimed’ because…
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Taking a ride with carousels – OJR
Another eyetracking study, this time looking into best practices for “carousel” style featured story slots on news site home pages. I’m a bit of a hater when it comes to these, but I’m glad to see there appears to be a right way to do it. Taking a ride with carousels – OJR
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Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac
Does what it says, and well. Thanks to @kthread for the tip. Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac
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Wiki what? Wiki who? Wiki why?
Carlos Virgen rounds up some thoughts on wiki use by news organizations, but I always get the feeling that most reporters and editors stop reading at the word “wikitorial,” freak out, and hide under the desks. Still here? Good. Carlos has a great idea about using a wiki as a “contextual archive” for related stories.…
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10 Killer WordPress Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
The bit about pagination seems useful, although I tend to run from plugin pages where the developer’s middle name is “GaMerZ” and comments indicate issues with WP 2.7. But hey, the idea of making that darn “Next/Previous” crap prettier is worth it. 10 Killer WordPress Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
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Learning to think like a programmer – Infovore
Incredibly important notes for journalists not so much on how to program, but on how to identify which information gathering and processing tasks could be better accomplished by a computer. (via Tim D’Avis) Learning to think like a programmer – Infovore