William M. Hartnett

Baggy jeans at mall drag family to jail - Palm Beach Post
Saggy jeans, six family members arrested, 20 sheriff’s deputies, one helicopter. Another day in Florida.
(tags: weird florida pbpost)

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My wife interned at The News & Observer of Raleigh way back in the summer of 2000. Their failure to hire her can only be described as an unforgivably poor decision. Their only consolation? Seeing the roof and east side of their building featured here, apparently. Virtual Earth/Live Maps, click the picture to map fiddle, [...]

Here’s a new year’s treat for the South Florida map geeks: Microsoft has added oblique aerial imagery for all of Palm Beach County to Virtual Earth/Live Maps. That’s over 2,000 square miles, people; Bigger than Rhode Island, and almost as large as Delaware. I’ve been waiting for this since I heard earlier this year that [...]

36 Hours in Sarasota, Fla. - New York Times
Very nearly my hometown. Still waiting for 36 Hours in Bradenton, but I’m not holding my breath.
(tags: travel sarasota nyt)

Bargain Hunt - Guardian Unlimited Football
Can surprise soccer fan Billy Beane and his Moneyball approach to baseball fly in the English Premier League? Interesting, very interesting.
(tags: soccer stats [...]

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The 44th and final Florida Home section of 2007. Total number of pages produced: 660. Not bad for a print real estate product launched during a dramatic market downturn. Feature story is about Gene Joyner, who retired after 35 years as Palm Beach County’s agricultural extension agent. Neighborhood of the week is Wycliffe Golf & [...]

Social networking starts with a profile - Lucas Grindley’s blog
“Whenever I answer a poll, or recommend a story, that feedback should be remembered on my user profile page. It would be nice if the system then compared me to other users and said, for example, I’m 80 percent similar in responses by Jane Doe.”
(tags: social [...]

What Is The ROI Of Requiring User Registration To Access Online Content? - Publishing 2.0
“… now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone, what (is) the real ROI of this registration wall … for the New York Times and others sites, many of them newspapers, that require registration.”
(tags: registration nyt newspapers)

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User video lacks value for media - patrickbeeson.com
“This entry focuses on the terrible content offered by most user-generated video, which is highly sought after by most newspapers and media Web sites. This despite the fact that most user video is not producing a return on investment.”
(tags: video ugc newspapers)

Website changes + lack of notice = [...]

It’s the day before Christmas, and I think you would be hard pressed to find a more appropriate subject for this week’s holiday edition of Paper View Monday than, um, the Knoxville News Sentinel. OK, so I couldn’t come up with an actual Christmas theme. Still, it looks like a nice building, and oblique coverage [...]