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Poll: Many News Site Readers Are Likely Early Adopters [Newsosaur]

Posted on March 23, 2010 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

From Alan Mutter: “Far from being fuddy-duddy Luddites, newspaper website visitors actually appear to be early and passionate technology adopters. The surprisingly high interest in high tech among online news consumers is revealed in a ground-breaking poll by Greg Harmon … Continue reading →

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The Future of User Interfaces [Six Revisions]

Posted on March 2, 2010 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

“In this article are than a dozen potential future user interfaces that we’ll be seeing over the next few years (and some further into the future).” Read more…

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Hey Journalistopians, it’s been a long while, but I wanted to post the handouts and examples I’ll be sharing at this weekend’s Online News Association Parachute Training in Boca Raton, Fla. Feel free to use these in presentations, in the … dating site for professionals

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One Key Piece of Advice for All Journalists

Posted on February 3, 2009 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

David Cohn has posted a great series of interviews with several media innovators over at his blog.  But there is one particular piece of advice from Cohn’s interview with Adrian Holovaty (4:15 in) that I think needs to be heard … Continue reading →

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On Tinkering

Posted on January 21, 2009 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

Some day, I’ll tell you folks the story of how I accidentally launched my online journalism career by building a seat-of-the-pants web site for the Hispanic Student Association in college using Adobe GoLive 6.0 (don’t make fun of me, dammit!). … Continue reading →

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How to Save Your Online Clips

Posted on January 15, 2009 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

Count on the fact that some of the journalism work living on your news site will go up in smoke. To protect yourself, make sure you’re keeping digital copies of your portfolio. [Photo by Mr. Peebles] Journo/developer Joe Murphy has … Continue reading →

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New Tableizer! Tool Turns Spreadsheets into HTML Charts

Posted on December 9, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

Web producers here in our newsroom often have to throw up quick charts of data online, but hand-editing a table from a spreadsheet or exporting it from Office or Dreamweaver can be a time-consuming endeavor. Well, now you have Tableize!, … Continue reading →

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When is Working for Free OK?

Posted on November 11, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

The New York Times Shifting Careers blog has an article that should be of interest to writers and web designers who are thinking of going the freelance route. Michelle Goodman, author of ‘My So-Called Freelance Life,’ has written a guest … Continue reading →

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Journalistopia is off to España, Greece

Posted on October 15, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

I’m taking a break! As you may recall, yours truly got married back in July, but Mrs. Journalistopia and I never got to go on our honeymoon. So we’re off on a two-week romp through Europe! We’re flying tomorrow to … Continue reading →

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Multimedia Job Openings in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale

Posted on October 13, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

Hey Journalistopians, opportunity is a-knockin’! The Orlando Sentinel, my esteemed employer, has a job opening for a rockin’ Flashionista multimedia artist (who just so happens to share the cube next to me). Additionally, the Sun-Sentinel, our sister paper down in … Continue reading →

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News Sites’ Next Killer App for Comments

Posted on September 26, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

Any of you developers want to get cracking on this idea for news site comments?  Pretty please? Original comic from XKCD here. [XKCD – Listen to Yourself]

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Journalistopia on Local6’s Flashpoint

Posted on August 19, 2008 by https://journalistopia.com/swiping-dating-apps/

A quick aside for a self-plug… Yours truly appeared as a guest last Sunday on Flashpoint, a local-affairs discussion show on Local6 (CBS affiliate) to discuss how social media is influencing the 2008 election. We talked about the candidates’ outreach … Continue reading →

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