Category: Technology
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First day of classes, First day of publication
Wow. Okay, so it’s the first day of class at SJSU. Am I prepared? Sure. Why not. I’ve been working on the redesign of the Spartan Daily site for a couple weeks now. It’s pretty much done, although there is still plenty of finishing and tweaking left to be done. (What’s an IE hack and…
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Washington Post, comments off
What happens when a newspaper’s blog becomes a battleground for flame wars? The Washington Post found out this week, and they didn’t like it one bit. Executive Editor Jim Brady explained why comments had been turned off on the WaPo’s Editor blog: “At its inception, the purpose of this blog was to open a dialogue…
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Selective NY Times only wants your feedback if you pay up
Pay your Times Select dues, or you don’t get to e-mail columnists hidden behind the pay wall. Editor & Publisher has the details. So not only has the NYT pulled its Friedmans, Krugmans, and Dowds out of the conversation by forcing us to pay to read them (unless we have access to Lexis-Nexis at school,…
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I am Jack’s convoluted stylesheet
If the posting is light, it’s because I am hacking away at YARSDW (Yet Another Redesigned Spartan Daily Website). Our old cms/server/hosting company, New Digital Group, merged with College Publisher, and we’re in the process of switching content management systems. The analogy I keep using for this is to say “Just imagine that the Gannett…
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Note to advertising profs, students
Here’s a great blog on the future of advertising…just scroll down the first page to get an idea of what sort of advertising technology is in the works for next week, next month, next year. Also useful: Paid Content and Om Malik. [tags]advertising[/tags]
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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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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 Media Projects Online at Sandbox
I’m just wrapping up work on the bits of coding I did on two projects over at sandbox.sjsu.edu. [UPDATE: We’re currently working out some server issues, but sandbox will return shortly…] [NEXT UPDATE: There’s still some interesting discussion going on about the site and the server, but sandbox is back online. Enjoy.] Sandbox is a…
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Google Ads in your print newspaper
Are you a production editor with a few empty spaces left lying around late at night? Tired of the same old house-ads-as-filler routine? Google wants your ad space. At least they’re paying for it. Or maybe they’re just trying to amass more dark fiber… [tags]google, advertising, newspapers[/tags]