William M. Hartnett

El Paso Times, Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle.

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Feature story is on Baby Boomers who left homes in the suburbs for condos in downtown West Palm beach. Neighborhood of the week is Equus, an equestrian neighborhood west of Boynton Beach.
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Stop mocking (Tribune’s Lee Abrams) and start listening - Readership Institute
“But much of what he is saying isn’t new and shouldn’t be surprising. He’s pointing out things we’ve learned on the job … but that we have failed to act on.” Kind of my point: Why pay someone to shout the obvious? Get rid of [...]

Via the Associated Press Managing Editors by way of my own managing editor, the Iowa Newspaper Association is organizing assistance for newspaper employees affected by that state’s recent tornadoes and floods. Mash your mouse right here to see how you can help out a colleague. They’d do it for you. As Steve Buttry, editor of [...]

The case for a JOA in Miami - Reflections of a Newsosaur
A joint operating agreement between The Miami Herald and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel?
(tags: sofla miami-herald sun-sentinel tribune-co mcclatchy newspapers joa)

The Palm Beach Post Retreat Memo - The Daily Pulp: Bob Norman’s Blog
I wonder if he’ll react to it with snark and sarcasm. Yes, yes [...]

Breaking: GAO Sustains Boeing Tanker Protest - FlightBlogger
GAO describes what sure seems like a whole bunch of Air Force contract evaluation incompetence.
(tags: aerospace boeing airbus air-force tanker military contracting)

Directory of newspaper gossip and insider blogs - Journalistopia by Danny Sanchez
Beginnings of a handy list of newspaper gossip blogs here. Go add you local source of [...]

Following up on Charles Apple’s list of newspaper job openings (link via Danny Sanchez), here are a few at the Houston Chronicle. The following message from Chornicle recruiter Diane Cowen comes courtesy of Chronicle reporter Terri Langford on NICAR-L:
Newspaper layoff and buyout stories continue to trickle out, but we at the Houston Chronicle are still [...]

The web that time forgot - International Herald Tribune
“In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or ‘electric telescopes,’ as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files.” Via Danny Sanchez.
(tags: history web iht)

Iowa Newspaper Employees Disaster Relief [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: A quick note about Firefox 3. We’ve been fighting the good fight against the the least modern browser still widely used, now we just have to get our pretty parcel-shading scheme to work in in the most modern browser soon to be widely used.

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