Year: 2009
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ONA09 debrief and the swagger
Well, it’s been a pretty awesome week. I spent most of last Thursday through Sunday at the 2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco, and if you follow me on Twitter or spotted a short post on my blog over the weekend, you know that Publish2, my current employer, was honored with a rather…
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Knight Foundation to Fund Plug-and-Play Version of EveryBlock
Pat Thornton talks with Gary Kebbel about a possible future for EveryBlock’s open-sourced code: “The Knight Foundation is working with advisers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to form a team to further development of EveryBlock and make it much easier for news organizations to set up the software on their sites, Kebbel said. Knight…
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Publish2 Wins Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
At the Online Journalism Awards banquet this Saturday, Publish2 had the honor of receiving the first Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism. Here’s our big thank you to all the journalists that made our success possible.
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The avatar problem
I’ll be at ONA09 for the next few days, where I’ll meet, probably, a few hundred people I know from the Internet. But they don’t know me. I mean, they know what I say and write and produce online, but most of them know my avatar better. That’s the one. I’m sitting outside at a…
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Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
I’ve never used Zipcar but hear it’s awesome. Now you can find the nearest available car, make a reservation, and unlock the door with an iPhone app. Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
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Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
A useful guide, especially if your blog is still outfitted with the default blue theme and zero plugins. The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
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Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
No nonsense tool to convert color codes. Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
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Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
Full audio and transcript of a recent Clay Shirky talk that includes this note on the unbundling of media: “So, in the language of my tribe, the aggregation of news sources has gone from being a server-side to a client-side operation — which is to say, the decision about what to bring together into a…