Category: Newstangle
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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…
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Beyond Comment Threads
Beyond Comment Threads: A Mozilla journalism challenge on building better community conversations around the news. So far, nothing terrifyingly new. Paragraph-level commenting, Slashdot-style threading, collapsing, and moderation. And if I could figure out how to register for the site, with or without OpenID, I might be able to comment on the entries. (via PBS IdeaLab)
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The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence
The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence: “Let’s get something out of the way. I’m not worried about a robot apocalypse.”
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Reuters covers ExtrAct
Reuters covers ExtrAct: MIT Web Tools Help Small Landowners Navigate Gas Leasing Frenzy. ExtrAct remains my favorite MIT Center for Future Civic Media project. Last time I saw the demo, there was (still) an amazing interactive map of natural gas wells, plus what amounted to a social rating system for “landmen,” the dudes who show up…
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Prime numbers, semi-transparent PNGs, and organic randomness in tiled backgrounds
Prime numbers, semi-transparent PNGs, and organic randomness in tiled backgrounds: The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers. Wish I had an excuse to use this.
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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)