William M. Hartnett

Because it bothers me … - editor on the verge
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(tags: delicious bookmarks blogs)

Fade to Black - Recovering Journalist
“There’s nothing local about movie criticism - or TV criticism, or book reviewing, or any number of things that newspapers persist in doing long past the time when they make any sense.”
(tags: newspapers movie-critics)

Why newspaper sites [...]

Excellent news if you’re me, meaningless news otherwise: Searching for “hartnett” with Google returns my site as the 10th result, which finally puts me on the first page. This is no mean feat, mind you, given the inexplicable fame of … that other Hartnett. Yahoo brings me in at 27th, Live Search at 22nd and [...]

Losing Local - Recovering Journalist
“Lesson: Newspapers need better local online products to offer advertisers, and need to be much smarter and more aggressive about how they sell them, i.e., not doing stupid bundling deals or sending print sales reps out to sell online …”
(tags: newspapers advertising local)

Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away - New [...]

Microsoft just dropped full oblique coverage of Pinellas County in its latest imagery update, so here’s the home of one of my top two all-time favorite newspapers named the St. Petersburg Times. Mash your mouse here for the Times, and right here for all the hot map action.

Say, speaking of the Times, here’s a little [...]

New Imagery, January 2008 - Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog
27+ TB of new imagery, including oblique coverage of Alachua, Pinellas and Volusia counties in Florida.
(tags: virtual-earth birdseye mapping)

The Cult of Michael Essien - Goal
“‘Michael is a world brand now, like Beckham,’ former Ghana captain Tony Baffoe told me when I ran into him at the [...]

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Neighborhood of the week is BallenIsles, a high-end, 33-subdivision golf and country club community in Palm Beach Gardens. Notable residents include Venus and Serena Williams. In other news, I dropped a page from the PDF because it was acting up. That’s the way I roll.
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Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as [...]

Youre On Notice! - The Stephen Colbert “On Notice Board” Generator
Maybe you’ve seen it already, maybe you haven’t. The important thing is that you don’t end up on my “on notice” list.
(tags: colbert television humor)

Why shouldn’t the press cover elections as if they’re horse races? - Slate Magazine
“In Praise of Horse-Race Coverage: If campaigns are [...]

Times Company in Group Investing in Blog Publisher - New York Times
“Automattic, the commercial arm of the WordPress blog platform, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including The New York Times Company.” Interesting. The NYT is really committing to open source.
(tags: nyt wordpress open-source)

Going down for the wrong cause - Random Mumblings
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Recent comment spam from my new best friend, a delightful fella named “Garden Centers in Kentucky,” not caught by Akismet:
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this blog earlier? Lol. Seriously, awesome work on this post (along with your other posts…) Keep it up!…
I almost approved it just because it was so cheerful and encouraging. Hey, [...]