William M. Hartnett

Back from a brilliant two-week vacation. Tanned, rested, free from snowmobile-related injuries, etc. I also have a rare and much-in-demand photo of your humble host to share. This is how a native Floridian prepares for any temperature below 80 degrees fahrenheit:

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

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m relocating to Houston through this weekend for the IRE/NICAR computer-assisted reporting conference. Maybe I’ll be posting, maybe I won’t. What’s it to you, anyway? In the meantime, have a look at this trippy photo of the Houston skyline by Flickr user telwink.

Did I just blow your mind?

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Things kicked off here at wmhartnett.com on Feb. 13, 2007, which can mean only one thing: A self-serving post to mark the site’s first birthday with a bunch of thoroughly unimpressive statistics. Here’s to even lazier adherence to and significantly greater indifference toward widely accepted rules of good blogging in year two!
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Sigh. Another big Street View update from Google today, but still a gigantic swath of outdated aerial imagery here in South Florida. The love, Google. Where is it? On with the inevitable collection of newspaper buildings (or at least buildings in the general vicinity of newspaper buildings) as seen in the newly added Street View [...]