Year: 2010
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8-Bit NYC
A map of New York City, Legend of Zelda style. I’ll go on the record as wildly preferring this method to the “web visualized as subway map” approach that’s been so persistent in recent years. I will also approve of Super Mario Bros. 3 mappages. 8-Bit NYC
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When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
If you don’t use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now. OK, still here? Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting by newest, reading from the top down and marking all as read when I felt…
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ONA Nashville: Smart Phones for Smart Journalists
Jack Lail from the Knoxville News Sentinel will be leading this one-day mobile seminar at ONA Nashville on April 9th. ONA Nashville: Smart Phones for Smart Journalists
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The evolution of lasvegassun.com’s homepage strategy – more importantly, does a nice design negatively impact traffic?
I first heard Rob Curley talk about this issue at SND ’08 in Vegas, when they were just starting to A/B test the ugly list of stories to see what it would do for traffic numbers. Take a look at this progress report to find out how the Sun’s homepage strategy has evolved. The evolution…
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Working with GarageBand
An excellent introduction to editing audio in GarageBand from Daniel Sato of the Garden City Telegram. Working with GarageBand
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Back to the Internet’s Future
Once in a while, I take a look through some of the links I’ve been saving, sharing, and publishing in the sidebar of my blog, Twitter, and a few other places, and try to scrape the pixelly cream off the top to immortalize (until the links break, anyway) a little bit of the Web, hung…
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The Internet? Bah!
Clifford Stoll’s 1995 predictions included “…no computer network will change the way government works.” The Internet? Bah!
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Q and A with Howard Owens of The Batavian
Thinking of going it alone in the hyperlocal journalism world? Start here, and take notes on how Howard Owens has embedded himself in the community he covers. Q and A with Howard Owens of The Batavian
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Creating Triangles in CSS
Border tricks make triangles show up in interesting (and useful) places. Creating Triangles in CSS
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The Digital Journalist’s Handbook: ON SALE NOW
I’ve been wildly impressed with Mark Luckie’s blog and work at 10,000 Words since I first heard of him. Highly recommend this book as a good reference to have in every newsroom. The Digital Journalist’s Handbook: ON SALE NOW