The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down — Registan.net
august 2011 by epersonae
"All of this makes for a gripping read. Too gripping I thought to myself."
news
war
politics
august 2011 by epersonae
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : HTML5: notes for analysts and journalists
august 2011 by epersonae
"Please, dear analyst/ journalist friend, define what you’re talking about before giving precise figures and talking about accelerating adoption."
html5
news
webdev
august 2011 by epersonae
Designing a big news site is about more than beauty » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
july 2011 by epersonae
"no one has figured out a way to present lots and lots of constantly updated information in a way that (a) is beautiful, (b) is effective at story discovery, and (c) privileges editorial control"
webdev
news
design
july 2011 by epersonae
This Mind Intentionally Left Blank :: Utøya: English version
july 2011 by epersonae
first-person account of the attack.
news
july 2011 by epersonae
This is not Chernobyl – Response to Skewed Media Coverage of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Incident -HESO Magazine
march 2011 by epersonae
"If you’ve been reading the foreign press about the “toxic cloud” hanging over Tokyo, you should know that I’m fine. Everyone in Tokyo is fine." among other things, evacuations of foreign nationals seem to be mostly about logistics, power outages, etc.
japan
earthquake
news
science
march 2011 by epersonae
A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections | Poynter.
march 2011 by epersonae
in which Metafilter continues to be awesome.
blogosphere
news
psychology
march 2011 by epersonae
So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again?
december 2010 by epersonae
little news tidbits, things that would not have happened/been widely known w/out Wikileaks.
news
politics
december 2010 by epersonae
VoiceBox Community Install Profile - Initial Release Available For Download | drupal.org
september 2010 by epersonae
intriguing. (also, I really need to figure out Features.)
drupal
news
september 2010 by epersonae
The Fox Cycle: From bogus right-wing attack to mainstream news | Media Matters for America
july 2010 by epersonae
it would be really nice if step 4 changed to "fox is making a big deal out of [x], and it's not true! Find out why at 11." ::sigh::
news
politics
july 2010 by epersonae
How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
june 2010 by epersonae
"On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution."
google
news
june 2010 by epersonae
Tattler (app)
may 2010 by epersonae
"Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today's Web." (another Drupal install profile, I think)
drupal
news
blogosphere
marketing
may 2010 by epersonae
OpenPublish - Open-Source Online News Publishing
may 2010 by epersonae
shiny Drupal profile for creating news sites.
drupal
news
may 2010 by epersonae
Common Sense Journalism: AP Style - it will be "website" and spell out state names
april 2010 by epersonae
yay! (don't care abt state names, but "website" FTW!)
writing
academia
news
webdev
april 2010 by epersonae
BBC News - Media tycoons wanted: Make your own newspaper
march 2010 by epersonae
Key point: "Large commercial printing presses - for daily newspapers such as The Sun or the Daily Telegraph - are not used for most of the day while the newspaper is put together."
news
misctech
march 2010 by epersonae
Should the government be spending tax dollars printing tiny type in newspapers? The arguments in favor » Nieman Journalism Lab
february 2010 by epersonae
This intrigues me: "It seems like there’s an opportunity here [...] to liberate public notices from their poor formatting and turn that data into an accessible tool" And the fox/henhouse analogy actually speaks to me.
politics
news
february 2010 by epersonae
Classified Ad Revenue Down 70 Percent in 10 Years, With One Bright Spot
february 2010 by epersonae
the bright spot being other: yard sales, legals, pets, and apparently most notably paid obits.
news
february 2010 by epersonae
Quote and Comment
january 2010 by epersonae
more on ExplainThis...which apparently doesn't exist yet?
journalism
news
january 2010 by epersonae
Poynter Online - Top Stories
january 2010 by epersonae
"ExplainThis has two parts. One is an open system through which anyone can ask and answer questions and vote on them. The second part involves "journalists standing by.""
news
local
webdev
january 2010 by epersonae
Dr. Drew Defines Hypocrite in 30 Seconds on The Today Show - Today - Gawker.TV
january 2010 by epersonae
::facepalm:: (LA folk: am I remember correctly that he started out on KROQ's Loveline lo these many years ago?)
society
news
weird
january 2010 by epersonae
Documenting the Decade - NYTimes.com
december 2009 by epersonae
towards the end, there's a juxtaposition of a photo of a man going thru a trash can against the next photo of a shiny new iPhone -- it seems to say everything to me. And though this decade past brought a lot of good things into my life, looking back seems like just one f'ed up thing after another.
photography
history
news
december 2009 by epersonae
South Sound Tour of Lights - Google Maps
december 2009 by epersonae
Luke one-ups the Olympian by putting their list of light displays into an actual map. (I'm boggled that his house isn't on it, frankly.)
gis
google
local
holiday
news
ena
olympia
december 2009 by epersonae
Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to sell news on the web: A checklist
november 2009 by epersonae
the graph is kinda lame, but the checklist is interesting to consider. something that came up a couple of times in the (mostly so-so) comments is the factor of convenience, either in form factor (Kindle) or in bundling/researching (niche content?).
news
november 2009 by epersonae
Does your site really need comments? ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
november 2009 by epersonae
Some really good advice, on the whole, although a bit of a personal feud towards the end there, so far as I can tell.
blogosphere
psychology
news
november 2009 by epersonae
The New (New) Mediaconomy - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
october 2009 by epersonae
"The net effect is this. The worse stuff is not that much worse. But the good stuff is way, way better." an interesting way to look at it.
news
october 2009 by epersonae
How To Save Media | MetaFilter
october 2009 by epersonae
jumped to awesome comment with big list of why generic OMG-save-the-newspaper! idea won't work.
funny
news
society
finance
october 2009 by epersonae
My Experiences with the ProJo « Seth Resler’s Blog
july 2009 by epersonae
“I would like to give the ProJo some money – can you please find somebody who will take it?” the boggling difficulty of placing newspaper advertising.
news
marketing
july 2009 by epersonae
Ten steps to save the Seattle P-I, and maybe the rest of the industry - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source
january 2009 by epersonae
because I'm not going to bother signing up to comment on Dylan's piece: the biggest problems with this are all around "bring in a top [x]" where [x] probably wants a big freaking salary. the rest of the ideas are not super IMHO, but not god-awful either.
news
local
seattle
january 2009 by epersonae
Requiem For A Newspaper, Part I: There’s nothing more we can do | Seattle Metblogs
january 2009 by epersonae
"I think a lot of people dismissing the idea of a single-market, online-only news site forget that a city can be a niche just like a neighborhood or an industry." This may be the key bit, even tho he makes it in the comments rather than the main piece. Not a reader of Seattle papers, but curious where this all ends up going.
local
news
society
seattle
blogosphere
olyblog
january 2009 by epersonae
Science in the open » The people you meet on the train…
december 2008 by epersonae
“the trouble with science is that I can’t get at the numbers behind the headlines; what is the sample size, how was the trial run…” omg, totally. have had this experience since C's stats class at UWT. also, I think everyone should take statistics. stats, arithmetic & algebra are the core of life-useful math, IME.
science
academia
news
library
society
december 2008 by epersonae
CBS News With Katie Couric hypes a nontrend: teens and bombs. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
december 2008 by epersonae
Apparently the ACTUAL trend is that teens are setting off FEWER bombs. Tales of my youth: my HS/college sweetheart & his best friend made nitroglycerin in a bathtub in their early teens; I knew another boy who almost lost a hand from a homemade pipe bomb.
society
gender
news
december 2008 by epersonae
Building the data desk: lessons from the L.A. Times
december 2008 by epersonae
interesting stuff, connecting the geeks & the reporters.
news
society
olyblog
webdev
december 2008 by epersonae
Track Hurricane[s] / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping
september 2008 by epersonae
interesting graphics.
science
news
webdev
september 2008 by epersonae
Spot Us » election
august 2008 by epersonae
this is some serious community journalism!
olyblog
society
news
politics
august 2008 by epersonae
The Associated Press: Mauritania army stages coup; junta takes charge
august 2008 by epersonae
my cousin is in Mauritania in the Peace Corps. (way out in the boonies, apparently. I hope she gets a chance to post to her blog soon!)
news
personal
august 2008 by epersonae
Derek Powazek - Concluding the Comment Culture Clash Cacophony
july 2008 by epersonae
Continuing good stuff. Read the links, including "This is Not a Comment."
blogosphere
society
news
local
olympia
july 2008 by epersonae
Derek Powazek - 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
july 2008 by epersonae
Derek is the granddaddy of online community. Or something. But good suggestions. Might post to Olyblog as well....
blogosphere
news
local
society
psychology
july 2008 by epersonae
Khoi Vinh -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - New York Times
may 2008 by epersonae
"my job as design director isn't actually to do great design, but rather to help create and sustain the conditions under which great design can happen" - fascinating interview, very thoughtful. (via Pat Ramsey)
news
webdev
may 2008 by epersonae
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