Category: Technology
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Obligatory post explaining the redesign of this site
For those of you keeping score at home, this is the sixth different design I’ve used, if we start keeping track back at Blogspot in 2005.
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im in ur filez, redezning ur websitez
I’m starting to peel back the layers of plugins and turn on some new stuff, so don’t be alarmed, dear readers (both of you), if things break around here for parts of tonight and tomorrow. So, why not go look at some cute cats instead of reading the usual hand-wringing, eh? (Five minutes later…) …Well…
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Using RSS to track the politicians you cover
Megan Taylor, an online journalism student at the University of Florida*, has been reviewing RSS feeds from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post this week. She points out a feature I hadn’t seen yet in the Post’s Congressional voting database: RSS feeds on every member of Congress full of their votes. (Thanks…
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I covet your WordPress 2.1
So WordPress 2.1 is out, and it comes with some great new features, but if you’re like me, and you run a few outdated plugins and have hacked up your templates based more on instinct than actual coding knowledge, things might not go quite as planned. I’m not paranoid, I’m just not going to continue…
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New feature: View all comments by a reader
Just turned on this WordPress plugin and I like it. Find a post with comments, then look for the “View all posts by so-and-so” link. Inspired by Jonathan Snook. [UPDATE: Months later, this post is getting traffic from a Related Posts link right now, so I’ll point out that I turned this plugin off pretty…
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Yes, that, the future, right there
What was it I was just saying about the future? That newspapers need to keep pace with the Web lest they get leap-frogged and left for dead? Well, a little slice of the future was unveiled today. That’s one of the most impressive retail *things* I’ve ever seen. And of course, I want one, but…
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$100 million for e-paper firm – maybe you should start thinking about the future
Red Herring reports a British e-paper company locked up $100 million in venture capital. “The company plans to build the plant, with an initial capacity of a million displays a year, in the eastern Germany city of Dresden and start production in 2008. The company said demand for electronic readers is expected to climb to…
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I’m too busy to think, so I’m letting these people do it for me
I’m finding I barely have time to read, much less actually write anything original these days, so I highly recommend you go away: SJSU: SJSU journalism student Andrew Venegas is trying to build some community by opening up his blog to other authors, and he’s getting a little video-happy, too. Somebody get that kid some…
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Dream software package for online news: Your answers
Last week, out of curiosity — and the need to hand in a list to IT folks at work — I asked for your suggestions for software-that-costs-money for an online news PC. Here’s the list I started with: Photoshop Flash Dreamweaver SoundSlides Here’s what you added: For image editing: Fireworks or Aperture or Lightroom For…
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What’s your dream-team online news software package?
Hey online news friends, delicious network pals, social networking junkies, and actual co-workers: Imagine you were switching desks, leaving behind your hard drive, and moving to a fresh install of some flavor of Windows. What software would you load up first? I’m looking for the stuff the IT department needs to know about and pay…