Category: Newstangle
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House Democrats pass historical health-care legislation
This great sortable database makes it easy to figure out who in the House managed to take the most money from the health industry while voting against healthcare reform. As a bonus, there’s a column noting the percentage of uninsured in their district. The most obvious story I see in this data: Pete Sessions sold…
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Marketing and Community Host for the next generation news service
Work with Pierre Omidyar and John Temple for Peer News in Honolulu. Marketing and Community Host for the next generation news service
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What 15 Journalists Took Home from South by Southwest
Good, quick notes from a wide range of online news folks who braved the crowds and played panel roulette at SXSW in Austin last week. What 15 Journalists Took Home from South by Southwest
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Stacey, The Lightweight Content Management System
PHP, but with a simple templating system and low-fi CMS, publishing. Stacey, The Lightweight Content Management System
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10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use ‘Linked Data’
If you’re looking to wrap your head around the concept of ‘linked data’ on the Web, this list by Martin Moore is a good starting point. Follow the links, and you’ll find a few different explainer threads. 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use ‘Linked Data’
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Intro to Final Cut Tutorials
Daniel Sato shares a set of Final Cut tutorial videos he made for the newsroom in Garden City, Kansas. Intro to Final Cut Tutorials
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Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the ‘News Blob’ – Alexander Shaw
So this is a Ruby-powered news aggregator publishing system. Meaning, it makes it easy to curate individual items from the feeds you tell it to watch. Add items to slots on a homepage, or topic page, for example, and it becomes a powerful aggregation publishing system. Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the…
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8-Bit NYC
A map of New York City, Legend of Zelda style. I’ll go on the record as wildly preferring this method to the “web visualized as subway map” approach that’s been so persistent in recent years. I will also approve of Super Mario Bros. 3 mappages. 8-Bit NYC
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ONA Nashville: Smart Phones for Smart Journalists
Jack Lail from the Knoxville News Sentinel will be leading this one-day mobile seminar at ONA Nashville on April 9th. ONA Nashville: Smart Phones for Smart Journalists
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The evolution of lasvegassun.com’s homepage strategy – more importantly, does a nice design negatively impact traffic?
I first heard Rob Curley talk about this issue at SND ’08 in Vegas, when they were just starting to A/B test the ugly list of stories to see what it would do for traffic numbers. Take a look at this progress report to find out how the Sun’s homepage strategy has evolved. The evolution…