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I feel like I’ve been hibernating (see photo). Sure there was excitement on Election Day, but this blog has been on sedatives, and it’s been a long time since I’ve undertaken anything big at work. This is partly my hangover from the recent bout of layoffs.
Well, I’m awake now.
Exhibit A: Personal projects – I’ve given [...]

Links for October 29th through November 3rd:

Where to Get Live Election Night Coverage Online : CyberJournalist.net – I can't believe spokesmanreview.com didn't get a mention!
Twitter Vote Report : CyberJournalist.net – A civic-minded application of Twitter. Would love to see somebody follow this and evaluate its efficacy.
washingtonpost.com – TimeSpace: Election – Great idea. Novel way of [...]

Links for October 26th through October 27th:

Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says — mathewingram.com/work – In answer to Paul Boutin. “Is everyone going to have a blog? No — and they never were. Facebook and Twitter are probably enough for many people. Not writing at all is enough for many people. But why does [...]

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 [...]