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With the morning off, I’ve had the luxury of spending more time with my feeds. Not surprisingly, the area of focus today is on the election.
Rather than post a lot of links individually, I’m buying in bulk. Here are two aggregations of online resources to help you watch the election results stream in. Go past [...]

It’s been a strange five weeks. It began with a relaxing Montana getaway and culminated Friday night with toasting two dozen laid-off colleagues at the billiards hall down the street from the newsroom.
Rewind. On Oct. 1, eviscerating cuts were announced at my newspaper, The Spokesman-Review. It’s old news by now for some: Twenty-one mostly younger [...]

Where will I be working next month? Where will I be working next year? What’s the best platform for this story? How do I learn video storytelling?
These questions speak to one of the biggest challenges facing young journalists today: the need to be agile.
A quick bit of context: I’m writing this to participate in a [...]

I’m copping an idea from Mark Luckie at 10,000 Words (hat tip also to Palewire, who’s done a lot with word clouds).
I used Wordle to create a word cloud of stuff I’ve written about here (it’s above).
It was super simple.

Go to Wordle.
Type in the url for any blog or site that generates a feed (e.g. [...]

Since starting this Wordpress-powered blog, I’ve experimented with several Flickr plugins.
I’ve tried Wordpress Flickr Manager and Wordpress Media Flickr, which came highly rated by users and made it simpler to add photos to posts. But what I really wanted was something that would display photos in the sidebar. Because, you know, visuals help.
I’ve finally [...]