Worth following – tools and code to largely automate geocoding of news stories.
Tag: news
‘S.F. Chron’ Announces Newsroom and Web Changes – E & P
Most notable from my POV: Eve Batey, former SFist blogger hired awhile back as SF Chronicle blog editor becomes DME for Online.
The important lessons of Backfence’s closing – Terry Heaton
Let me just say this: Terry is really fucking smart. I actually learn from his blog things I need to know, like this week. Go read this post if you’re at all involved in trying to figure out how to make hyperlocal work at your news organization.
Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox – MediaShift
The AP video player on many, many news sites will soon be available to Firefox and Safari users. Yay.
Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox – MediaShift
Micro Persuasion: Five Ways to Be a Better Info Junkie with Topix.net
Good instructions on how to use Topix for some great searches. Try the search-by-city stuff for your town.
Micro Persuasion: Five Ways to Be a Better Info Junkie with Topix.net
KnoxViews | News and views of the community by the community
I’m going to start gathering links to all the (successful) local community sites I see.
KnoxViews | News and views of the community by the community
First Draft by Tim Porter
“The digital newspaper future is already here – and it’s not one most journalists would have invented, but if they don’t seize control of the change process then someone else, someone from the boardroom, will do it for them.”
TechCrunch » Will Wikio challenge Google News and Technorati?
The race to be the Digg-of-News continues… This one looks too busy to me.
TechCrunch » Will Wikio challenge Google News and Technorati?
Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Online News
50 million Americans get their news online. Full report from Pew.
CommonTimes.org – media reform starts here
Neat Digg-like site for all news — readers tag stories from all over the Web. I’ve subscribed to the “Popular” feed to find out what other people think is important/insteresting/funny.