William M. Hartnett

Just some video nonsense for your viewing pleasure: Piano hamster has a popped corm.

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Interesting thoughts on newspaper video today from Patrick Thornton (Video does not equal new media) and Ryan Sholin (Why shoot newspaper video?). On the specific issue of newspaper video, for largely practical reasons, I suppose I lean more toward Ryan’s concept of “FasterMore.” But, mainly, I’d hate to see us get distracted arguing over this [...]

As promised last week, here’s the first in my new regular series of newspaper buildings as seen in “bird’s eye view,” the oblique aerial imagery feature of Microsoft’s Live Maps. Everyone would have known this was The Philadelphia Inquirer even if I had not given it away in the title, right? (And the Daily News, [...]

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Feature story on the results of Florida Home’s ugly lawn makeover contest. Neighborhood of the week is Black Diamond in Wellington.
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I had so much fun wasting several hours looking up newspaper buildings in Google Maps Street View that I decided to do the same thing using the oblique imagery, or “bird’s eye view,” feature in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps. There are loads of cities with oblique imagery coverage in Live Maps, so I’ll probably make [...]

For no particular reason, apart from the fact that Google Maps now has Street View imagery in four new cities, and that I just think it’s kind of cool, let’s go on a tour of newspaper offices. First up is the Orlando Sentinel:

I was hoping to see the old New York Times building, but West [...]

Gordon Trowbridge of The Detroit News’ Washington bureau brought these two maddening passages from a Howard Kurtz web chat at washingtonpost.com on Monday to the attention of the NICAR mailing list:
Louisville, Colo.: Hi Howard, Amid the calls for increasing taxes after the Minnesota bridge collapse, the media has done almost no presentation of what is [...]

I really, really hate wearing shoes, particularly during muggy Florida summers. It’s the long men’s dress socks that get me. I don’t know why it took me so long, but I think I may finally have found an acceptable compromise between going barefoot and wearing long, stupidly uncomfortable, instantaneously sweat-inducing socks: Low-cut cycling socks. I [...]