October 2009
109 posts
I’ve got the Halloween spirit. http://twitpic.com/np0v1
Working on a Twitter list for Green River flooding http://pnw.cc/cr
Our dairy delivery service, Smith Bros. Farms, got a writeup in the WSJ http://bit.ly/oaTvr
Working on a Twitter list for Green River flooding http://pnw.cc/cr #waflood #kentflood
Late lunch at Spyro’s in Des Moines.M http://twitpic.com/nl1ok http://twitpic.com/nl1o8
We’re hosting the People’s Choice awards for the Renton Film Frenzy. Come watch & vote for independent short films! http://pnw.cc/cm
HELICOPTER BOYZ IN YOMIURI LAND →
I favorited a YouTube video: 先日よみうりランドでおこなわれた、ヘリコプターボーイズのライブの模様を収録したビデオです。 This is a video of the Helicopter Boyz live performance at Yomiuri Land which took place the other day….
Finally! A use for Nikon’s new S1000pj cameras with built-in projectors. Love it. http://bit.ly/4cyDJ7 (via @photojojo)
Bainbridge Zombies: A day in the life. http://pnw.cc/cj
A great marriage proposal story http://pnw.cc/cd
A more customized search experience for your... →
We’ve posted a couple times about how the Custom Search Element can help provide a more customized search experience for your users while enabling you to earn money. Today we’re excited to announce…
D’oh! So sorry about that.
Live or work on the Eastside? We have a video explainer on the eastside light rail debate http://pnw.cc/c6
WordPress 2 for iPhone is a big improvement over the first version. But why is it a new download and not an update? http://bit.ly/4zXDQu
Lists.
Hello Poulsbo my old friend
Glad to see that @markbriggs has scheduled another #gonzocamp and glad to see that @seattlepi is hosting. http://bit.ly/1YYpdF
Painfully Honest and Epic Mobile Home Commercial →
I favorited a YouTube video: Cullman Liquidation is the 2nd local commercial of our I Love Local Commercials Series sponsored by MicroBilt ( http://ilovelocalcommercials.com ) — Nominate…
You have a lot of valuable content to offer and not all of it is editorial. Twitter isn’t just for headlines. http://bit.ly/4vvgqc
2 more Google Voice invites up for grabs. Anyone? Anyone? Reply via DM.
Roku sporting new hardware; channel store coming... →
Roku, makers of the popular Roku Digital Video Player set-top box, announced new hardware options just in time for the holiday shopping season. The new options include a lower priced,…
Twitter is not just for headlines →
You have a lot of valuable content to offer and not all of it is editorial.
Newspaper reader studies have shown that people read newspapers and subscribe to home delivery for a variety of…
Free BuddyPress Themes →
WordPress MU and BuddyPress resources tend to be scattered across the wild wilderness of the internet. WPMU.org aims to be the best source for tools, news, and information to help you build and…
An idea for better web services backup: let your users backup to a cloud backup service http://bit.ly/2nuQ8b
“Backing up is hard to do-ooh…” Also known as, “I hate losing data.” http://bit.ly/4blwpD
Export All Your Google Docs to a ZIP File [Backup] →
Google Docs has officially thrown open their data doors, allowing users to back up all their documents to whatever formats they choose and compressed into a ZIP file. It’s serious peace of mind…
Google Docs Batch Export →
Now you can export all your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs from Google Docs in a ZIP archive. The most difficult part is to select all your files: you need to go to the “All…
The death of newspapers doesn’t mean the end of... →
Last week I stood in front of a convention of high school journalists and told them a career in journalism was still a solid prospect. I bit neither my lip nor tongue as I said this. For…
Not sure which group is more exhausting to work with: toddlers, or newspaper publishers.
2 words: Trench. Run. http://bit.ly/3LiX9K
My advice to journalism students →
I’ve been through most of this before, either in blog posts or in person, whenever I get the chance to talk with journalism students, but it’s worth repeating. A few tweets this week seem to have…
Destroy the Death Star from the comfort of your... →
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, iPod touch
Wanna blow up the Death Star? There’s an app for that! At least there should be soon.
StarWars.com has word of the upcoming iPhone…
Extending the cloud with backup services →
Looking over my earlier post about backup strategies made me wonder how I could simplify my own process further. The basics of local backups of web services, backing up my local drive to…
My personal backup strategy →
For some reason a lot of people have been asking me lately about my backup routine, perhaps it’s the season, perhaps it’s the recent Sidekick trouble. Regardless, I figured that I should blog…
Great discussion today w/ @makbriggs and our team about journalism as a discussion at community news orgs
Watching @markbriggs present to a group of our editors in port gamble, wa.
Google Custom Search for mobile →
Google Custom Search makes it easy for web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their sites. Since a rapidly growing percentage of web search traffic originates from smartphones, we’re…
if you still don’t get all the excitement over social media, watch this: http://bit.ly/3JISVm
huh. that’s new. i’d never seen flash player crash so hard that it wouldn’t work in any browser and forced a reboot.
Welcome to the Microsoft Store →
I favorited a YouTube video: Entering the Microsoft Store Recorded on October 22, 2009
Microsoft has officially run out of original ideas. http://bit.ly/2Ctsgi
Making WordPress More Modular with Multiple... →
You’ve found the perfect theme for your WordPress installation. It already has most of what you need, except you’d like to include a different sidebar on some of the pages. Or perhaps you would like…
RT @yelvington: Murdoch+Co are pushing the paid-content message, but don’t take driving advice from someone who wants 2 run me off the road.
Just nominated Publish2 for Best Site for Journalists http://mashable.com/owa #openwebawards
iPhone video editor #ReelDirector looks very interesting (based on the demo movie). Might have to buy a copy. http://pnw.cc/a7
Online news folk: if you don’t have a plan for iPhone yet, get one: http://bit.ly/qxSVb
How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In... →
Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker did her annual data dump slide presentation, this year focusing on the growth prospects of the mobile Web. As…
A real video editor for the iPhone 3gs (audio tools coming in the next rev) http://pnw.cc/a2
The new Nook ereader from B&N runs on Android. http://bit.ly/2rHjdo
The Nook makes my first-gen Kindle looks even more archaic. Oh, and it lets you share books. Are you listening Amazon? http://bit.ly/4l7vPY