Year: 2010
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A quick guide to the maxims of new media
A primer including the origins of crucial one-liners by Dave Winer, Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and a few more. A quick guide to the maxims of new media
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A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work
“Newsstand” by triin on Flickr. Mario Garcia probably believes the lifespan (halflife?) of print newspapers will stretch out ever so slightly longer than I believe, but I’m constantly inspired by his original thought about the problems associated with sustaining any version of the existing structure of journalism, assuming for the moment that it’s a good…
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From Journalism to Django, Part One: Prerequisites
Chris Amico is writing a bit of a guide for journalists looking to get started with Django. From Journalism to Django, Part One: Prerequisites
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How to Create a Sliding jQuery Login Panel for WordPress, WPMU, and BuddyPress — WPMU.org
How to Create a Sliding jQuery Login Panel for WordPress, WPMU, and BuddyPress — WPMU.org
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Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web
Nick Bilton on the cause, method, and effect of human curation of the Web. Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web
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Don’t do this
Hugh MacLeod is certainly one of my favorite cartoonists around. I’ve bought business cards with one of his drawings on the back before, and I’m happily subscribed to his e-mail newsletter, where he’s gone the way of Jason Calacanis and cut down on blogging while ramping up (well, on and off) an old school broadcast-like…
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Notes on the Cleverness Economy
As a young aspiring writer (of what, I didn’t know), I wrote an awful lot of words in notebooks for the better part of the 1990s, and I mean “an awful lot” to have multiple meanings in this case. All self-deprecation aside, one of the easiest, most satisfying ways to string words together was to…
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IdeaLab: Q&A 2.0
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I wrote something earlier this week about what I think of as Q&A 2.0, the recent string of modern, general purpose question & answer sites exploring different ways to gather, filter, and deliver information. And that’s the right way to think about it: Gather, filter, and deliver information. That’s…