Medill student innovators -- including "programmer-journalists" -- focus on conversations around news (2)
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It's been almost a year and a half since a grant from the Knight Foundation allowed the Medill School to offer journalism master's program scholarships to experienced programmer-developers. Since then, on this Web site, I've been documenting the experience of the first two "programmer-journalists." Now things start to get interesting. For graduate students majoring in new media, Medill's one-year academic program ends with one of our "innovation project" classes. These are team-based classes in which ...
Create Your Own Social Network Site with Elgg (5)
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Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. It runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL - the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in. Elgg is compatible with enterprise technologies like the Zend Platform ...
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qthrul said:
DIY alternative to NING for muni/city/gov sites wanting to soak in a web 2.0 world
HTML 5: Ian Hickson showing you features in browsers today! (28)
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Ian Hickson gave a great presentation at Google where he just sat down, opened up Emacs, and started to build demos on the fly that use HTML 5 features. His goal was to use browsers available today (albeit nightlies and such for some of them) to show progress.... so no future tense! You can watch the presentation below, but to see the code better I recommend going to the high quality version. Ian put the ...
Outfit yourself for audio gathering (2)
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The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs. All the information you need is here: Journalists’ Toolkit: Audio. Related posts: The reporter’s audio gear list Teach audio in your newsroom or classroom (here’s how) ...
Galleriffic | A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries (6)
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My New Book: Designing the Digital Experience (1)
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I wrote a book! The title is: Designing the Digital Experience: How to Use Experience Design Tools & Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love. It should be out this October. What’s the book about? Here’s a snippet from the Introduction: “Visitors to an organization’s digital space don’t want to think about interacting with its website. They want to — quickly and easily — make a purchase, find information, or do research. It helps if they ...
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GOP attacks, praise stretch truth (AP) (23)
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
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Matt said:
Not to get all political, but in the battle of GOP v. Facts, it's not even close.
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