William M. Hartnett

Cross Compare SQL Server 2008 Spatial, PostgreSQL/PostGIS 1.3-1.4, MySQL 5-6
Valuable resource to study and consider before you go ahead and settle on PostGIS.
(tags: gis mapping postgis sql-server mysql postgresql)

Lee Abrams Think Piece: Behind the drama at the Tribune - Poynter Online
Why Tribune gets so much “dramatic” coverage: “There are some dramatic issues facing Media companies, [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Just added: 2007-2008 FCAT results and school grades, 2008-2009 attendance zone maps. Come for the boring incremental data update announcement, stay for the indecipherable, insanely pointless exploration of two styles of labeling school years.

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Vermont: I’m pretty sure it’s actually in Canada. I don’t know exactly where its offices begin and end, but The Burlington Free Press is down there somewhere. Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to fiddle with the map.

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Great news for those of us here in hurricane country: Stormpulse, the tropical weather tracking site built by colleague Matt Wensing and his programming partner in Chicago, is now providing its awesome hurricane mapping technology to the storm section of The Palm Beach Post. And just in time, too, because the tropics are really heating [...]

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The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Palm Beach National between Greenacres and Wellington.
DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION
Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (9.1 MB, 8 pages)

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How to save young employees from the buzz saw of newspaper culture - Readership Institute
“My work on changing culture in newsrooms shows that young journalists intend to leave because the pace of change is too slow. … They are turned off by the tendency of veteran journalists to argue down new ideas, cling to old [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: 107 days of Backyard Post browser and operating system stats, for no particular reason. In which charts are posted. Just because.

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Just how stupid, shortsighted and out-of-touch are newspaper executives? - Depth Reporting
“What I am saying is that powerful economic forces, forces that are vastly more complicated than the simplistic drivel about newspaper curmudgeons and their resistance to change, are behind the news industry’s malaise today.” READ THIS RIGHT NOW!
(tags: newspapers management business history commented-on)

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The Journal Star of Peoria, Illinois; Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle.

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