Year: 2009
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VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead
Here’s NiemanLab’s interview with Aron Pilhofer from the New York Times on the big additions to the list of DocumentCloud partner organizations. VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead
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A challenge for you: Community coworking space and Web worker job training
Right here, right now, I’m going to give you a great idea, for free. Enter it in the Knight News Challenge (deadline: Oct. 15), or perhaps more likely, the Community Information Needs challenge (next year). Or fund it yourself. Or bootstrap it. Or pitch it to a local nonprofit with stimulus money to spend on…
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The Science of ReTweets Report
Here’s the full Dan Zarella report on words, punctuation marks, etc. that will get you retweeted. I’d love to see what these numbers look like a few months after RTs are codified. The Science of ReTweets Report
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Finding Jesus at a Georgia truck stop – CNN.com
Remember when I was a budding screenwriter working on a script about truck drivers? Man, that was fun. This is the sort of thing I would clip out of the New York Times. Matter of fact, I have an old clipping filed away about a trucker preacher a bit younger than this one from those…
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The League of Moveable Type
Wildly useful: Beautiful open-source fonts (read as: free like beer) in the public domain. The League of Moveable Type
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Clarion-Ledger reporter gets fellowship, $500,000
Wonderful: A MacArthur Genius grant goes to the investigative reporter with “more than two decades of reporting on unpunished killings from the civil rights era” under his belt. Clarion-Ledger reporter gets fellowship, $500,000
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Elevate your journalism career
Steve Buttry provides journalism students and professionals with a book-chapter-length list of great advice. From the introduction: “Editors, colleagues and training programs will help you move to a higher level, but nothing will help as much as your own commitment to improvement.” Elevate your journalism career
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Using iPod Nano for video interviews
Mindy McAdams gives the new iPod Nano video camera a test drive. Using iPod Nano for video interviews