links for 2010-03-09
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Politics group blog for Liverpool's politicians – courtesy of Trinity Mirror:
"Trinity Mirror's Liverpool papers have taken a new direction with the launch of their latest group blog, aimed at increasing political engagement amongst its readers.
The new Liverpool Party Central site will see the leaders of the five main political parties in the area contributing posts in the build-up to the forthcoming election. The politicians will be able to publish directly to the site, using a basic content-management system for which they have their own logins."
links for 2010-03-04
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Newspaper uncovers link between site and designer's past in designing porn sites. But readers decide to remeind the Hull Daily Mail how it makes some of its money too…..
"Typical Dull Daily Fail trying to attack local businesses. How can they take the moral highground when they take classified ads from prostitutes?"
links for 2010-02-17
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@cybersoc: "My former employer, the BBC, has issued new guidelines for the official use of third party social networking and micro-blogging services. The new guidelines should not be confused with the guidelines issued several years ago on the personal use of blogging and social networking sites by BBC staff but instead are intended to cover official, albeit non-contractual, BBC activities on third party websites."
links for 2010-02-11
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As in media, so in education
“The ‘Agile University’ is about the capacity to innovate, particularly in new business or operating models. It requires a creativity in how an institution is structured and people are equipped to lead and manage it. It also requires a strategic and entrepreneurial approach to the use of technology.”"
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"analysis of Ministry of Justice figures shows that 22 per cent of FOI requests were refused in the latest three-month period on record"
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Future of News group for Brighton spins out idea, which gets taken up by the Brighton Argus.
"The MP candidate tracker page also displays tweets sent out by each candidate." says Jo Wadsworth of the Argus.
A definite way forward, and one that could generate really good user-driven data about the election campaign.
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The Guardian guru lays out his idea of a collaborative future…
“And you can’t do that from behind a pay wall,” he added"
links for 2010-02-03
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Tackling the sneaky students who sneak tech into their exam strategy
When you look at NSFW pics beware the camera crew
An Aussie bank worker is probably in line for some serious grief from his boss after he was seen looking at naughty pictures of women with very little in the way of clothing, while a colleague was being interviewed by a TV crew from Channel 7.
Sit back and gawp as the camerman zooms in before yer man realises what is happening. (The zoom in is from the Youtube vid as other versions don’t do it)
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Quick thought: Virtual supervision
This year I’m working with two different students as their dissertation supervisor. One is a postgrad and the other an undergrad.
After talking to both of them we’re going to be using Googledocs to share their thoughts and allow me to review what they are up to.
One of them is already using googlechat with me to do interim session and problem solving chats, coupled with the face to face timetabled work.
So far I’m finding it invaluable.
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Rapid development and journalism projects
- Image via Wikipedia
As a long term Wordpress user I’m a bit biased when it comes to simple, out-of-the-box CMS software. I’m currently starting to play around with the coding required to make themes work for a number of personal and work-related projects. I’ll be collating links and sharing Wordpress hacks as I go along.
One of the simplest things I’ve found, that has made my life a lot easier, were suggestions for a virtual development server. As a Mac user I know that I’ve got one built in – and have used Terminal to play around with Django, which meant kicking in the server. But this was a little complicated.
After a bit of digging, I found suggestions for using MAMP (Mac) and XAMP (Windows) as a dev server – so I can hack around to my heart’s content.
The only issue I found was working out the web address for the project – the MAMP site left me scratching my head, so I did a bit of searching on how to set up MAMP for a Wordpress install.
Basically you drop your site into the appropriate MAMP folder and set up the Wordpress config file as per the instructions. Then just run the installer at http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
I’ve started digging around in the theme folder – I’m currently looking at magazine-style themes and looking at Arthemia and Scarlett, both of which offer some interesting possibilities but neither of which quite do what I’d like them to do. Hence the reason for starting to hack around.
Starting points
I’m currently reading .net magazine’s issue 199 which has a good article on Wordpress and an old .net article on Wordpress Themes for Designers.
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links for 2010-01-29
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"Editorial content started moving online, shrinking to fit computer screens and then even smaller for PDAs and 140-character tweets. The iPad represents the first time this trend has been reversed. Instead of smaller, more low-res content, we have the chance to get bigger, brighter, sharper content. Designers used to making it smaller may have trouble learning to go the other way.”
How to report the news
Just in case you missed it this week, or on all he other sites.