Author: Ryan Sholin
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From the height of this place – Jonathan Rosenberg
Google’s SVP of product management, in a memo rewritten for public use. The bits about journalism have been quoted in the last week, but not the most interesting ones. Read the whole section and you’ll see what I mean, perhaps. From the height of this place – Jonathan Rosenberg
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Thanks, Howard.
As you may or may not have heard by now, my boss at the office, Howard Owens, has moved on. I just want to take a moment to publicly say thanks to Howard here, and more than obviously, to wish him the best in whatever endeavor other people might call his “job” next. Personally, I…
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Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting plugin – WordPress Plugins
Could be an improvement on PodPress. Worth a look. Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting plugin – WordPress Plugins
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Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
Pat rocks out an intermediate level Twitter for reporting screencast so I don’t have to. (Actually, I have to, but I’ll pass along Pat’s as well.) Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – BeatBlogging.Org
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Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices – andydickinson.net
A good tutorial on how to route data from a Google Spreadsheet (with no lat/long data) through Yahoo Pipes for geocoding purposes, and then out to Google Maps. One nitpick: I couldn’t get this to work with the RSS feed from Pipes; I used the KML instead. Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices –…
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Clay Shirky on micropayments for online news
I am very specifically not enjoying the current wave of handwringing over whether or not some version of micropayments, online subscription, or paywalls could work for typical U.S. news organizations. But here’s Clay Shirky: “The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase ‘nickel-and-dimed’ because…