William M. Hartnett

Neighborhood of the week is the tiny country club town of Atlantis.
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Nostalgia is not a business model - Joe Think
“Gosh, so much hand-wringing. I love newspapers too, and you know what I worry about? I worry about the collective lack of imagination of those … who can’t envision a future any better than the present that exists.”
(tags: newspapers)

Today’s Thought: Institutional memory holds newspapers back - The [...]

Some headlines currently on PalmBeachPost.com. Notice the fourth item, and click on the image below to check it out:

Is Florida a great state, or what? Now if you’ll excuse us, we Palm Beach County residents have another presidential election to attend to.

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Meyer to students: Think you’re fast? Come race Percy Harvin - Inside UF
An opportunity to race UF’s fastest football players (Percy Harvin, Chris Rainey, Deonte Thompson, etc.) in the 40. Would they finish before I even made it off the line?
(tags: football gators pbpost)

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A student reader and Paper View Monday fan writes to ask whether I know of any news buildings with an outdoor news ticker (also known as a zipper, maybe?), such as those at Good Morning America’s set in Times Square, as pictured above. (Props to Flickr user wallyg.) So, what say you, readers? Do you [...]

The Greatest Job Evar? Work for I Can Has Cheezburger - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“We’re looking for a Full-Time .NET Developer with a passion for coding with “srsly gud” .NET expertise. You will make the intarwebs a better tube for millions …” Bonus skillz: “All your bases must belong to you.”
(tags: ichc lolcats jobs)

Happy Journalist: [...]

Pensacola is about 600 miles away from my house in southeast Florida, or roughly nine hours by car. That was a random fact right there, and I hope you enjoyed it. Here’s the Pensacola News Journal in Virtual Earth/Live Maps.

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Know Comments - Recovering Journalist
“Thousands of online sites have been running thriving, friendly, well-behaved communities for years, but newspapers seem allergic to the idea of letting readers have their say online - and almost invariably seem do it badly when they do allow …” it.
(tags: newspapers commenting)

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Same old, same old. Busy at work = not much posting = inexplicably steady traffic. Here are the February stats, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

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Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach [...]

I had a good chat about the digital future of local newspapers with Ryan Pitts of The Spokesman Review of Spokane yesterday after teaching a mapping class he attended. They’re looking for a developer to, among other things, help rebuild their site from the ground up with Ellington/Django. It sounds like an exciting opportunity to [...]