Category: Ideas
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links for 2006-01-20
Jerry Carroll joins news staff at Voice Interesting career rundown of a Spartan Daily alum. (tags: sjsu SpartanDaily journalism jobs) TechBlog: What’s your passion? The Houston Chronicle is recruiting bloggers. (tags: newspapers online+journalism online+newspaper jobs journalism new+media)
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Linking behavior
[UPDATE: I edited this post, but it still doesn’t give away the punchline.] Yesterday on the way to school/work, the wife and I were talking about what I should write my Master’s Thesis (ETA: May 2007) on. I’m still really hooked on the idea of writing about how linking behavior confirms the Katz/Lazarsfeld, et al…
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Upgrade complete
Well that was easy. All the plugins I want are updated, the database seems to be fine, and the new backend is pretty enough. Redesign coming…uh…later…like next month. Enjoy.
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Upgrade coming…
Just a warning… I’m starting the upgrade to WordPress 2.0. There might be some down time or other chaos as I port this theme over… or ditch it entirely. I have something new in mind – we’ll see if it works out.
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Reporters Without Borders has ideas about Chinese Democracy
Reporters Without Borders has published a set of proposals for corporate responsibility when it comes to online freedom of speech. These six recommendations would forbid US email hosts from planting their servers within the borders of nations with oppressive laws aimed at quashing dissent i.e. Yahoo mandate a “protected” list of words that search engines…
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links for 2006-01-13
The California Aggie UC Davis has a decent looking College Publisher paper. (tags: SpartanDaily online+newspaper)
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Video via Vimeo
Hmm. Well that’s pretty decent. Autoplay=”false” my ass, though. That’s going to get annoying… Hold up. As soon as I hit my slot on Vimeo with Safari instead of Firefox, they automagically converted my .wmv to quicktime. Cool. Hence, a far more viable and accessible quicktime file now sits below this post, embedded without autoplaying,…
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New Year’s Eve in Caracas, via Vimeo
http://clips1.vimeo.com/video_files/2006/01/12/vimeo.47422.movJust press play, or View this clip on Vimeo Music: “El Ano Viejo” by Tony Camargo [tags]video, caracas, venezuela, new year’s eve[/tags]
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New Year’s Eve in Caracas
I’m struggling here trying to embed a .wmv file into a post. I can manage it in a way that works on everything but Firefox, but that’s unacceptable to me. Uncomplicated WordPress plugins seem to do the same thing. Does anyone have a sensible piece of code I can slap right into a post to…
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links for 2006-01-12
Oregon Daily Emerald – University of Oregon news and sports – Now educating on an iPod near you U of Oregon Journalism Prof is podcasting supplemental material for his classes. Now that wasn’t so hard, was it? (tags: j-school education podcasting) Spot Runner – Welcome to Spot Runner Wow – this is the future of…