Tag: blogs
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SimpleLog. A simple (and free!) Ruby on Rails weblog application.
An alternative to WordPress, built on Ruby on Rails, for when I’m done half-assed learning PHP, and to try out before I move on to half-assed learning Django. SimpleLog. A simple (and free!) Ruby on Rails weblog application.
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Seventh Annual Weblog Awards: The 2007 Bloggies
A good page to check out if you want to what’s hot this year in the corners of the blogosphere you roundly ignore. Seventh Annual Weblog Awards: The 2007 Bloggies
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Do your reporters have OCD or ADD?
From Jeff Jarvis’s notes on the something Arianna Huffington said during a discussion at Davos: She said that bloggers have obsessive-compulsive disorder while reporters (or more likely, their editors) have attention deficit disorder. I think it depends on the reporter, or the editor, or the town, or the size of the news hole. But all…
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Journalism students need new heroes; Journalism heroes need new students
This week’s running conversation between Mindy McAdams, Bryan Murley, Howard Owens, and Ron Curley, among many others, boiled over into the U.K. media blogosphere, and I’m finding myself alternately cited, enlightened, and humbled.Let’s start with some enlightenment from a 19-year-old journalism student at the University of Lincoln, UK: Dave Lee. Lee read Martin Stabe’s follow-up…
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random notes on blogging – gaping void
“19. For us serious blog evangelists, it’s tempting to think “Everybody should have a blog”. About as tempting as the thought, “Everybody should be able to write well.” And about as realistic.” random notes on blogging – gaping void
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ICM Interview: Howard Owens – Innovation in College Media
Good advice from Howard Owens: “Every student journalist should spend at least six months totally immersed in blogging. Start a blog and try to draw an audience.” ICM Interview: Howard Owens – Innovation in College Media
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Don’t get wrapped up in the ‘so-called pajama media’
In this wide-ranging interview with Bryan Murley of Innovation in College Media, Gatehouse Media’s Howard Owens points out what I battle through in conversations with both journalism school faculty and students over and over again: ICM: Which leads a little bit into my next question … The online media universe has been changing dramatically over…
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Fragments of Mine
One of Mindy McAdams’ students at UF. Always fun to watch an undergrad ‘get it’ one blog post at a time. Fragments of Mine
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Washington Post Plans Blog Portal – Micro Persuasion
Now there’s an idea. Quit trying to get the community to create content on your site, and just create a directory where they can find each other. Washington Post Plans Blog Portal – Micro Persuasion
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Five things you might not know about me, but now I’ll tell you and ruin the opportunity to tell you these stories properly later
Okay. First things first, I don’t usually play the blog-tag game, and calling these things “memes” always makes me, Saussure, and Debord throw up a little in our mouths, as the saying goes. Does that count as the first thing? No? Fine. Here goes: I spent my 21st birthday in Central Booking in Manhattan. Lesson…