William M. Hartnett

I’m going to mention the word once, then not only will you never hear or see me use it again, I might actually go so far as to punch squarely in the neck anyone who insists on using the word in relation to the product I’m about to announce: Hyperlocal.
There, I said it. An utterly [...]

… to find out what, as of Monday, I’ve been working on for the past 572 days. (Yes, I count.)

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Nothing but Florida newspapers for the next four Mondays, for no better reason than simply because I’m doing them all at once and couldn’t be bothered to leave the state, not even virtually. Here’s The Gainesville Sun in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture below to fiddle the map for yourself. (And don’t miss that [...]

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Neighborhood of the week is Ironhorse Country Club in West Palm Beach.
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Twitter can drive traffic - The Journalism Iconoclast
“If you use Twitter as merely another one-way conversation tool, it will be nothing more than a really poor version of RSS. But if you use Twitter as the two-way communication tool that it is … you’ll … be able to discover new readers and users.”
(tags: twitter newspapers)

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Map Channels Dual Maps
“Dual maps let you display two maps side-by-side for a single location. Use the dual map to combine the features of Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps within one embeddable control.” Via Google Maps Mania.
(tags: mapping googlemaps virtual-earth)

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times
“Arthur [...]

Dusting Off the Archive for the Web - New York Times
Free and open archives = big traffic boost. No surprise there, but it’s still good for anyone who might not have believed it otherwise to read about it for themselves in the NYT. Newspaper of record, and all that.
(tags: archives newspapers magazines)

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… to coincide with the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I’d make brackets and everything. Gambling encouraged. But it seems like it might turn out to be a lot of work, which is sort of exactly what I’d be trying to help everyone avoid. And the real trick is how to convince people they would look [...]

The State, Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to fiddle with the map for yourself.

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