William M. Hartnett

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Good doggie! - ICHC?
In which the natural order of the universe is revealed.
(tags: cats dogs lolcats ichc)

The end of online stupidity - CNNMoney.com/Fortune
(Fortune story via CNNMoney.com? Holy branding confusion.) “A team of software developers is hard at work on a ’stupid filter’ that promises to do to idiotic online comments what a spam filter does [...]

What is the logic of the “time remaining” bar in software installation windows? I’ve been staring at “Time remaining: 3 minutes” for exactly 11 minutes while waiting for a software update to install. It is literally impossible to overestimate how immensely annoying I find this. Now it’s counting down individual seconds from 45, except each [...]

Well, not so much this year as this Saturday. Florida vs. Florida State in Gainesville at 5 p.m. Battlestar Galactica: Razor at 9 p.m. Bonus metaphysical conundrum: Who/what would prevail in a confrontation, Tim Tebow or Battlestar Pegasus?

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What You Get for … $20 Million - New York Times
If you happen to have a spare $20 million, and also happen to be looking for a way to spend $7,433 per square foot for a two-bedroom house, this will sort you right out.
(tags: nyt real-estate)

If You Build It … - Columbia Journalism Review
Another story [...]

I still call newspapers “newspapers.” I probably always will, even long after those that survive become almost fully digital operations with perhaps a token print newsletter for the elite and the elderly. Will this prevent me from ever attaining legitimate new media douche bag status? Should I try to kick the habit?
For example, I wrote [...]

Tracking the truth on foreclosures - OCRegister.com
I find RealtyTrac’s foreclosure stats highly, highly problematic. Often, just as meaningless as the median sale prices delivered by Realtor associations each month, and reported breathlessly during the real estate run-up. Via Talking Biz News.
(tags: real-estate foreclosure realtytrac)

The slow crawl of journalism education - Teaching Online Journalism
“There’s more to [...]

Think globally, mark locally - Google LatLong
Excellent new feature in Google Maps: “Now … you can move the marker for your address to show the exact entrance of your house. Just search for your address, click ‘Edit,’ click ‘Move Marker,’ and drag the marker to your front door.”
(tags: mapping googlemaps)

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What you mean “Unhappy Walrus is at the door”? - ICHC?
You risk the wrath of the lolrus when you trade in stolen bukkets.
(tags: cats lolcats ichc lolrus)

Sliding stickiness unglues news sites - Reflections of a Newsosaur
“While lots more people came to the largest newspaper web sites this year than last, visitors stuck around for shorter [...]

Excellent water feature here at the San Jose Mercury News, as seen in the bird’s eye view feature of Virtual Earth. The problem with the newspaper business these days, and I’ve said it often, is a lack of water features both inside and outside of our buildings. Mash your mouse on the pictures to map-fiddle [...]