Author: Ryan Sholin
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Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers
Useful list of WordPress plugins for publishers: Plugins for publishers, April 2011 edition
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Virgin Galactic is hiring. Astronauts.
Virgin Galactic is hiring. Astronauts. Job listing right here. “Virgin is looking for pilots with significant experience of both high performance fast-jet type airplanes as well as large multi-engine types – not only that but prior spaceflight experience is an advantage.” [Emph. orig.] (via jkrums)
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An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter
An updated list of the “top” newspapers on Twitter: Mathilde Piard cleans up one of the sillier “top newspapers on Twitter” lists to float around the web in recent months.
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Andy Carvin, human verification machine
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? Craig Silverman talks with Andy Carvin about covering revolution from afar, performing atomized acts of journalism to connect individual tweets to sourcing, evidence, witnesses, and narrative.
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Notes from Evan Williams on the five pieces of online identity
Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity: Notes from Evan Williams (you might remember him from such products that hinge on online identity such as Blogger and Twitter.)
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On the road with Kerouapp
Moderately fascinated by word of Kerouapp, which seems like it places your tweets on a map with a handsome timeline. Here it is in action at the Guardian UK: Krakow Twitrip
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Fancy open source timelines from spreadsheets
Fancy open source timelines from spreadsheets: TimelineSetter: Easy Timelines From Spreadsheets, Now Open to All. It’s Ruby and it’s from ProPublica and it’s elegant.
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Hardly strictly the oldest person in the room
I’m genuinely excited to be on the short list of attendees at the round table Dave Cohn has been putting together at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute later this month: Hardly Strictly Young. Those of you who read this blog regularly (ahem, both of you) have probably spotted a monthly Carnival of Journalism…
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The growing Instagram app community
News to me: There’s a growing series of side businesses attached to Instagram. This reminds me of early Flickr API toys, and naturally, of the Twitter developer community. Here’s the link that’s been circulating this week: 10 Totally New Ways to Play with Instagram.
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Jakob Nielsen asks if “hated” web design elements can still be useful
Can Hated Design Elements Be Made to Work?: Jakob Nielsen asks the hard questions, makes an example of one great technique being used in a less-than-stellar way.