William M. Hartnett

Meant to include these geographic and referral details in yesterday’s self-congratulatory anniversary post. Enjoy.

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I am not, as it turns out, huge in Asia.

North and South America: 13,865 visits, 85.25%
Europe: 1,581 visits, 9.72%
Asia: 444 visits, 2.73%
Oceania: 255 visits, 1.57%
Unknown: 61 visits, 0.38%
Africa: 57 visits, 0.35%

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Not even in southeast Asia, which contributed 50 percent of my genes [...]

Palm Beach looks to the future - editor on the verge
“The Palm Beach Post has decided to actually do what so many people in journalism have only been willing to talk about.” Hey, I think I know that place.
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PBP Reorganizing, putting web before print - graphic designr
“As all newsroom reorganizations do, [...]

Things kicked off here at wmhartnett.com on Feb. 13, 2007, which can mean only one thing: A self-serving post to mark the site’s first birthday with a bunch of thoroughly unimpressive statistics. Here’s to even lazier adherence to and significantly greater indifference toward widely accepted rules of good blogging in year two!
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Census Atlas of the United States - U.S. Census Bureau
Census Atlas of the United States free in PDF: “… the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. The Census Atlas is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps.”
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Sigh. Another big Street View update from Google today, but still a gigantic swath of outdated aerial imagery here in South Florida. The love, Google. Where is it? On with the inevitable collection of newspaper buildings (or at least buildings in the general vicinity of newspaper buildings) as seen in the newly added Street View [...]

Announcing a Django boot camp for journalists by journalists - mattwaite.com
Learn Django basics at the annual NICAR conference in Houston, Feb. 28 to March 2. I’ve been to 5 of the past 6 conferences, and they’re brilliant value for money. Find me there and I’ll give you a peek at our upcoming GeoDjango-powered project.
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Just trying to restore a little geographic balance following an extended east coast swing by heading off to Boise for a quick look at the Idaho Statesman in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Mash your mouse on the picture to map-fiddle, but please remember to adequately stretch and warm up your clicking finger first.

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Feature story is about the winners of Florida Home’s “My Taxes Have Tripled, My ARM’s Out of Control, I Can’t Give My House Away in This Market and Here Comes Another Hurricane Season South Florida Homeowner’s Blues Contest,” which prompted more than 50 people to pen and perform their own real estate-themed blues song for [...]

I’m bringing back the meh T-shirt from my September post on Google hosting wire stories on the occasion of another Google News development. (Note, however, that Howard Owens says in a comment on TechCrunch that this feature isn’t new. I must be thick, because the Google News Blog post was the first I heard about [...]