February 2009
Day one of the multimedia newsroom →
Yesterday marked the opening of The Amherst Wire’s newsroom, UMass Amherst’s first independent, web-only news operation.
To recap on how we got here, The Amherst Wire was hatched in…
My @TNTJ post for Jan: startups have a greater ability to succeed because of energy, no print legacy, and more flex: http://bit.ly/4SHni
Simple:Press Forum →
Wordpress plugin that turns your blog into a forum.
Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository →
Al Jazeera has opened a lot of video footage to use under Creative Commons. An unprecedented move, in my opinion.
Looking for assistance setting up pretty URLs for MediaWiki on Liquid Web. Anyone in the Twittersphere have experience? Tks
Great analysis by @kaisdavis on the current state of the @dailyemerald in an @oregoncomment article http://bit.ly/IhgY It’s stuck.
TNTJ January 2009: Building traditional media back... →
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I disagree.
Andrew Dunn, who blogs at dunnreporter.com, is a journalism student at UNC-Chapel Hill and the university editor at The Daily Tar Heel. His studies…
Election Promise: Legal Right to Water? →
In preparation for the upcoming elections, Shri L. K. Advani recently had an interaction with leading subject experts, NGO representatives, health workers & environmentalists. Participants…
Sue me harder →
GRISTMILL :So, remember how we’re going to dump billions and billions of dollars into the laps of the Big Three automakers, to rescue them from their own myopic decisions… READ MORE
Stranger in a Less Strange World →
“W’ap pran yon grenn de fwa pa jou.”
I must have recited that sentence a hundred times last week. I traveled to Thiotte, a small city in the mountains of southeastern Haiti, with the Haiti…
Chez Moi en Haïti →
Public transportation in Port-au-Prince
Schoolgirls in Thiotte
Thiotte Market
That’s what I like to see: “Haiti must survive. Let’s protect our environment.”
Quadir argues that the US under Obama should take a radically different approach to foreign aid: http://bit.ly/XStX I agree.
My M.I.A. is conflicting with the cumbia in the internet cafe. Oh wait, that’s Shakira. #peru09
“1/2 of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people with easily preventable water-bourne diseases” http://bit.ly/nx00
PHP Function Reference - Google Code →
Open source dashboard widget for Mac OS X that looks up PHP functions
January 2009
Blast from the past: Demon Days by Gorillaz is pretty darn dirty and pretty darn good.
We are connecting everything to everything. →
There is something mysterious that happens when we take large numbers of things that are fairly limited and connect them all together. When we take the dumb chip in each cash register in a store and…
Friday night + carnival + drums = a large festival in Cajamarca #peru09
We are connecting everything to everything. →
There is something mysterious that happens when we take large numbers of things that are fairly limited and connect them all together. When we take the dumb chip in each cash register in a store and…
7 Timeless Web Memes →
Sure there are the flashy memes tied to poorly translated video games, 80s pop singers (I warned you) and bad dancing, but there are also serious topics of conversations that pop up…
Twitter foul-up in progress: http://bit.ly/oivY and http://bit.ly/hIBr Evening news is going to be all over this one.
Getting out in the field today to photograph reminded me why I enjoy traveling so much: http://bit.ly/CPfL #peru09
Another idea for @populous: Community can submit and rate story ideas (h/t @jeffjarvis, but the idea isn’t that new)
Gmail “Bad Request” because of cookies is getting to be a little too much.
Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal... →
Here’s a sad one: the Google Maps car took out a baby deer, and it recorded the entire process for all Google Maps users to see. For shame, Google Maps car! As you follow the street view…
A solution to our bee problem →
Scientists are still trying to figure out what’s causing CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder, a plague that’s killing off millions of bee across the United States. Among the possible culprits are a…
rt @laurapalmero: jeffrey sachs and earth institute on twitter @earthinstitute
At least our unemployment rate isn’t at 94% http://bit.ly/yM9q (via @appafrica)
Someone at the @dailyemerald be hating on the art of blogging: http://bit.ly/EQVa4 Can’t wait to get back to campus and change things up.
What Happened to iPhone Push Notifications? →
Dan Moren: We put in a call to Apple to find out the reason why, but unless you’re new to this whole scene you won’t exactly be flabbergasted to hear that the company was about as communicative…
The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware... →
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This would be amazing if true.
This is pretty much the biggest news of 2009 - I am going to email the OLPC folks confirm, but according to this article - The new…
Mad props to @ahemphill for all of the great work he’s done in the past week the new @copress website coming soon. #empathyday
Thanks all who offered kind words yesterday (and @lyzibang, I’m so glad I didn’t have to sit through the @ASUO Senate meeting). Hoy es mejor
Pretty terrible day. I suppose you have to have one of them every so often.
Here come the robots: http://bit.ly/35mld1
Board Directions →
How XX and XY get along.
Listening to What Would Google Do? via Audible and processing images. #peru09
userfly - instant web usability testing →
As the tag line suggests.
Things don’t look good for England http://bit.ly/22u9es
Gmail Gets Offline Support, Finally →
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Part of me wonders how useful Gmail will actually be offline, though.
One of the longest-running requests for Google’s web mail service Gmail has been for offline…
More good news from the department of good news: http://bit.ly/4jrw7d
No offense, @andrew_dunn, but I might like this idea better: http://bit.ly/nVhq (thanks @coolgates)
Akvo.org - the open source for water and... →
Organization that builds tools to share resources about providing clean water and sanitation. Claims to be a “Wikipedia, eBay and YouTube for water and sanitation projects.”
Stoked that I’ll actually be able to watch Paul Farmer’s panel: http://bit.ly/zPmg Starts in 8 minutes.
In Cajamarca at the ITDG offices catching up on email. It’s amazing how many can be sent in just a day… #peru09
I’ve put $30 down: http://letsbuyanewspaper.com/
Let's Buy a Newspaper →
Campaign started by Andrew Dunn to buy a newspaper. If I had any part in this, there would be radical qualifications.
Blogging is an iterative, social form of learning to write. #peripheraleducation
#idea for @evernote: I wish there was a more intuitive way to “archive” notes (a la Gmail). I use notebooks like categories currently.
#boarding Cruz del Sur for a 19 hour bus ride to Cajamarca. Time to catch up on sleep. #peru09