Year: 2011
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An A1 centerpiece without a headline
Today’s Newark Star-Ledger centerpiece story runs without a headline. Intentionally: Charles Apple notes a piece of engaging print design on the front page. It’s a seemingly banal photograph with three grafs of text above it that draw the reader in, revealing at their close the backstory of the image. It works well.
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Open source tools from the Chicago Tribune news apps team
Recent open source work and other projects we’re excited about: Free open source tools from the Chicago Tribune news apps team. Census, Twitter, regional boundary data, etc.
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How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables
How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables: Seems useful!
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In which you can hear the Internet breathing heavily on a hot day
PBS hacked, new Twitter stuff, new Google stuff, new Apple stuff, constant flow of new Facebook stuff, that guy who had that other guy’s computer, a thousand horrifying tornado photo galleries, continuing viral revolutions in the Middle East, Instagram. It’s too hot for this, Internet. (I’d link, but I don’t want to break anything.)
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A Feltron Report for your Facebook
Social Memories: an Infographic Book of your Facebook Activity: Your very own Feltron report, if you don’t mind that it’s limited to all the information it can get from your Facebook account.
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Daniel Bachhuber’s notes on Advanced WordPress
Workshop: Advanced WordPress with NYU’s Studio20: Daniel Bachhuber’s notes from a workshop with Jay Rosen’s students. Sound basics and key points of entry for advanced manipulation of content types, version control, and (as always with Daniel) a metadata layer of his thoughts on education.
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“Cleaning up the comment cesspool”
Cleaning up the comment cesspool: Ventura County Star editor Joe Howry has penned what is either the most eloquent column a newspaper has ever published on the problem of comment threads and trolls — or the most cliché-laden — or possibly, both. If you can get past that, it’s an interesting approach they’re taking: They…