Archive for April, 2007

House progress, interior paint edition »

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Florida Home 9: 2007-04-28 »

Neighborhood of the week is Banyans at Broken Sound in Boca Raton.
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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 11 »

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Redesigned LJWorld. Where’s the clutter? »

Catch a preview of what your newspaper’s web site will look like in, oh, about five years by checking out the redesigned LJWorld.com today. Metaphysical conundrum: If a newspaper.com isn’t jam-packed with clutter — hundreds of links, dozens of thumbnail pics, etc. — is it really a newspaper.com?
(Via Ryan Sholin)

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Read carefully, share widely »

Credit to Mindy McAdams for wading through her reading backlog and finding this gem: Media Convergence: ‘Just Do It’

“Darwin explained that the species that are the best at adapting to change will survive. It won’t necessarily be the biggest news organization (remember the dinosaurs), nor the newspaper that now has the highest circulation or has [...]

Another great hurricane-mapping site »

You already know about the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s IbisEye, but have you seen Stormpulse.com? (I found it via the Florida GIS Data blog, which spotted it at GISuser.com.) There’s a Stormpulse blog, too, where the developers are revealed to be “Matt and Brad.” And it says Matt lives in West Palm Beach. Matt, get in touch! [...]

Now I just need a terabyte of data »

>Hitachi ships its terabyte drive (CNET)
For $399! Is it insane that my first thought upon reading this was that I need to go out and get a truckload of aerial imagery data to justify buying a terabyte drive? Seems just a little bit backward.

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Good news: I’m still cool »

>This is the Year of the PS2, Not the Wii, PS3 or 360 (CrunchGear)
The PlayStation 2 remains the top-selling console, and that makes me and my two-year-old copy of NCAA Football, the only game I still play, awesome. Also, I’m awarding myself bonus awesome points for still playing my SNES.

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Bad today, worse next week »

>FAS-FAX Preview: Circ Numbers To Take Another Big Hit (E&P)
Bad news due Monday, as if you couldn’t have seen it coming a mile away. Sure, you got your cutbacks to junk third-party sales, but it’s still ugly. Better pick up the pace, people. If you don’t already feel the urgent need for radical change, let [...]

Now accepting lucrative payments »

>Hearst Paid $1M Per Year for Right to Buy ‘Seattle Times’ First (AP via E&P)
Hearst has been paying $1 million a year since 1999 for the right of first refusal should the Blethens put The Seattle Times up for sale.
If anyone is interested in entering a similar arrangement with me, by the way, I’m open [...]