William M. Hartnett

Three tips to protect your WordPress installation - Matt Cutts
“Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog.”
(tags: wordpress security)

Simple Simon - Slate Magazine
“What the auteur of The Wire doesn’t (and does) understand about the newspaper business.”
(tags: newspapers slate david-simon)

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There’s a chain of free weekly newspapers called Hometown News that circulates in six counties here on Florida’s east coast. Three weeks ago, without prompting, they started dropping their stupid paper on my doorstep. For three weeks, I’ve tried to convince the Hometown News that I do not want their stupid paper dropped on my [...]

Hartford Courant, Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle at your own speed.

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Feature story is about the latest Red Cross Designers’ Show House, a 9,200-square-foot condo on Singer Island. Neighborhood of the week is the Hobe Sound Golf Club.
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WSJ.com Wants to Be Free? Maybe Not! - Recovering Journalist
“Turns out that Murdoch … apparently has figured out what some of us knew all along: It’s not that easy (or smart) to walk away from $70 million in guaranteed annual revenue - and the high CPMs that subscription-based audience underwrites.”
(tags: wsj murdoch paid-site newspapers)

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Teaching journalism new tricks (and keeping a few old ones too) - Completetosh.com
“… there are fewer really good journalists in this world than there are skilled users of blog software, which is why we’ve got to welcome the good journalists into the new world … if the old skills we still need are to abide.”
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You can ‘teach’ culture - Innovation in College Media
“I don’t think the answer is ’sink or swim,’ if I can paraphrase Paul’s suggestion. Rather, it’s a systemic change in the entire newsroom culture, and a commitment to mentoring those who haven’t yet ‘learned’ to be part of the culture of the Web.”
(tags: newsroom-culture)

Matthew Winkler: “The [...]

Careful readers will have noticed I have a certain admiration for Microsoft’s Live Search Maps and the broader Virtual Earth platform. Not only is it a worthy competitor to Google Maps, but in some respects it’s a superior product. Mileage may vary depending on your location and needs, but I have crazy love for Virtual [...]

Noted in Will’s jambalaya links: This Jeff Croft link to the new Ellington-based Las Vegas Sun site. Noted in the page source of the new Las Vegas Sun site: A bit of humor. Go to the site and view the source for yourself to share in my amusement, or just mash your mouse here if [...]