Archive for March, 2008

A little preview of things to come »

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Probably the best map ever made »

And made by me, of course. It shows how to get from The Post’s newsroom to its web department for chips-and-salsa Friday. (If your feed reader of choice doesn’t load embedded maps, definitely click on over to check it out.) See, the person on the horse is the newsroom, and, um, the golfer is us. [...]

Random picture of my cat, Vol. 56 »

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Florida Home 55: 2008-03-15 »

Feature story is about “live-aboards,” former suburbanites who cut their ties to land and now live on boats at the Harbortown Marina in Fort Pierce. Neighborhood of the week is Lands of the President in West Palm Beach.
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Just how useful to terrorists is geographic data on the Web? - Depth Reporting
Not very. Mark Schaver points to a RAND Corporation analysis of the “dangers,” which turn out to be few and insignificant.
(tags: public-records foia gis data)

UPDATED: Denver Post And Charlotte Observer in Pulitzer Dispute - E&P
“A dispute over a Pulitzer Prize finalist [...]

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Gannett Chief Dubow Made $7.5 Million In ‘07 - E&P
“Craig A. Dubow, president, CEO and chairman of the nation’s largest newspaper company, earned a total compensation package of $7,546,710 in 2007 …” And I’m confident he deserved every penny, all 754,671,000 of them.
(tags: gannett exec-pay e&p newspapers)

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The Last Post:* Lacy, Zuckerberg and how being slightly rubbish is more dangerous than ever - Completetosh.com
“… we conference-guzzling, globetrotting massively digitally connected geek blogextroverts are cocks.” Seriously. Some of these dudes are real wankers.
(tags: blowhards)

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Paper View Monday: Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, New Jersey »

As seen in Virtual Earth/Live Maps, it’s the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, NJ, site of the recent and truly remarkable “poopgate” incident. I was inspired to look the Courier-Post up by this post over at Jim Hopkins’ Gannett Blog. Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle.

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The next week or two (or three) should be fun … »

… so stay tuned for a small amount of news about what lives below this here tab.

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 55 »

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