Category Archives: Technology

Open Source means you can create content, right?

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Chris Heisel

I know it’s a CMN but I thought this was too funny not to share: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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Journalism job description tag clouds

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chris Heisel

A colleague of mine, (whom may or may not remember me from my [Dow Jones Online Internship](http://indystar.com)), [Eric Ulken](http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html) built a tag cloud of [keywords in postings to journalismjobs.com](http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html). Not surprisingly, “blogs”, “interactive”, “flash” and “graphics” top the list — … Continue reading →

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Urban renewal for data ghettos

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Chris Heisel

So, I gather that in newsrooms it’s become [fashionable](http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/) to [put](http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-main-page/) [public](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=LOCAL08) [records](http://www.azcentral.com/datacenter/) [online](http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=data). I totally love the term that [Matt Waite](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/) coined — calling them [data ghettos](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/): > But if you take a step into one of the databases … Continue reading →

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Mail.app and Gmail performance boost

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Chris Heisel

So I’m loving that [Gmail](http://gmail.com) finally got IMAP as a feature. It makes the [iPhone](http://apple.com/iphone) experience soooo much better and it is nice to be able to read my mail in a desktop app at work and at home. However, … Continue reading →

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Let’s not forget about graceful degradation

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Chris Heisel

Far be it from me to be a [nattering nabob of negativity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew), but in all the Web 2.0 euphoria (I hate that name, BTW), let’s not forget about graceful degradation. Let’s examine the discussion between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 … Continue reading →

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