Category: Newstangle
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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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Taking a ride with carousels – OJR
Another eyetracking study, this time looking into best practices for “carousel” style featured story slots on news site home pages. I’m a bit of a hater when it comes to these, but I’m glad to see there appears to be a right way to do it. Taking a ride with carousels – OJR
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Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac
Does what it says, and well. Thanks to @kthread for the tip. Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac
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10 Killer WordPress Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
The bit about pagination seems useful, although I tend to run from plugin pages where the developer’s middle name is “GaMerZ” and comments indicate issues with WP 2.7. But hey, the idea of making that darn “Next/Previous” crap prettier is worth it. 10 Killer WordPress Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
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Learning to think like a programmer – Infovore
Incredibly important notes for journalists not so much on how to program, but on how to identify which information gathering and processing tasks could be better accomplished by a computer. (via Tim D’Avis) Learning to think like a programmer – Infovore
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Why Twitter’s New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web – RWW
Notes on OAuth — Starting to make a lot of sense to me for ReportingOn auth purposes. Let RO access your Twitter info? YES. Why Twitter’s New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web – RWW