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Who says newsrooms don’t have any fun anymore?
via the exploding newsroom by johnhassell on May 16, 2008
Each spring for the past decade, The Star-Ledger has launched the Munchmobile’s summer season with a marching band, a parade through the newsroom and a lot of silliness. (For those not in the know, the Munchmobile is a custom van with a giant hot dog on top that travels New Jersey with a crew of guest munchers seeking the state’s best eats. Captained by the inimitable Pete Genovese, it has...
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Future of News: Data Mining, Visualization and Interactivity
via Strange Attractor by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
| View | Upload your ownI felt that it would be inconsiderate to the other panelists to live blog my own panel, but here is my presentation. And here are some links that I used in creating the presentation.17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter UniverseBuild Last.fmDigg labsI'll add some more after the panel is done including some links to Matt Hurst of Microsoft Live Labs and David Blei with the...
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Literally, My Mom is Blogging This T-Shirt
via droolicious by Heather Kuldell on May 15, 2008
When I saw this shirt, I couldn't help but make the statement true. I am a mom and now I have blogged this t-shirt. Polly Tod's My Mom is Blogging This is available in onesies or t-shirts for little ones from 6 months old to size 4T. Fear not paternal types, there's a My Dad is Blogging This option or, for co-bloggers or non-traditional family units, there's My Entire Life is...
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Video Comments for Blogs
via E-Media Tidbits by Paul Bradshaw on May 15, 2008
... service launched this week by Seesmic in partnership with the comment-tracking service Disqus.Video comments benefit commenters vs. the rest of a blog's audience in different ways.From the audience's perspective, some readers probably won't be willing to play a 30-second video that they could have scan-read in a fraction of the time. Or they will feel frustrated if they do play s...
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Enthusiastic adopter? Digital native? Doesn’t matter. We need them.
via The Journalism Iconoclast by pat on May 15, 2008
Sara Hartley and others have taken offense to the term digital native.They don’t want to feel like immigrants. That’s fine. I don’t want to get into a debate over semantics.The terms mean nothing. The reality means everything. We need people at newspapers who get and use the Web — especially on Web staffs.Maybe we should just call them (Web) technologists — regardless of how or when...
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My thoughts on small-scale Drupal development to production environments with CVS and Subversion.
via Nick Sergeant :: Blog by Nick Sergeant on May 15, 2008
My thoughts on small-scale Drupal development to production environments with CVS and Subversion.There has been a boatload of discussion amongst the Drupal community regarding best practices for managing developement, staging and production environments with a Drupal codebase. The reason this is usually a sore subject for many Drupalers lies in Drupal’s heavily database dependent [...]
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Interview - Matt Neznanski On City Beat Blogging
via Beat Blogging by David Cohn on May 15, 2008
A follow up to the post on Matt's beat blog "between the lines."If you haven't gone to check it out, do so. It's one link away and a great example of how to "just do it."Below is the transcript of a quick phone interview with Matt.Q: So, tell me a bit about what you are doing with "between the lines." How did this come about? Matt: I liked the idea of trying to incorporate more voices...
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Got the data. Now what?
via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wired Journalists by Casey Cora on May 15, 2008
So, our CAR ace has put together a preliminary framework in Django, I've been collecting data on homicides in our area since the first of the year. We have several searchable, sortable categories (age, race, address, homicide location, etc. ) and subcategories (weapon, weapon type, relationship to suspect/victim, etc.) and so far, so good.The idea is to build a page about homicides, and...
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Seeking workable ideas for a staff "rewards & recognition" program
via Everyone's Blog Posts - Wired Journalists by Mitch Betts on May 15, 2008
I'm looking for recommendations for how to structure a "rewards & recognition" program for the whole staff. We'd been giving $200 AmEx certificates to news reporters for extraordinary efforts each month, but we need something broader to cover the whole staff (including features, online community, blogging, copy desk, etc.). For one thing, it's not fair to be recognizing just one part...
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Spellr.us Launches: Check Your Site For Spelling Erors
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 15, 2008
Last month we ran a brief post introducing Spellr.us, a service that monitors websites for spelling errors. Little was known about the site at the time - all we had to go by was a teaser splash page. The site has finally entered a private beta, and it shows a lot of potential. For those looking to try it out for themselves, you can grab one of 150 invites here.Spellr.us monitors webpages by...
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