Tag Archives: journalism
Word clouds made easy
Thanks to @ericasmith, I learned about http://wordle.net, which creates word clouds in super-easy format. It takes all the words of any text you put into it and spits out something like what you see below. The bigger the font for … Continue reading
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Evangelizing Twitter
Here are excerpts from an e-mail I wrote to another online editor last night who is going through a hard time convincing her staff to embrace Twitter (and the Web in general). I hope my advice works for her. Hi! … Continue reading
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Databases don’t have to be boring
Let me start this by saying I don’t know how to build a database, but I’m the Statesman’s database guy. Instead of building databases the old-fashioned way (with language I don’t understand and mind-bending logic questions that hurt my head … Continue reading
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Twittering the news the right way
When I started Twittering as @statesman, I immediately looked around to see how this is being done. Surely, I wasn’t reinventing the wheel, right? After a quick Google search, I found this blog by Erica Smith that keeps track of … Continue reading
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Starting to blog again
It has been a long time since I have blogged regularly, but I think the time has come. I Twitter all the time, but it’s time to say some things in >140 characters. I won’t post things unless they’re useful. … Continue reading
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