Jared Silfies

Cool links for November 18th through November 19th:

• AppleScript: The Language of Automation - How to use AppleScript and Automation on the Mac.
• How to embed high quality YouTube videos - Download Squad - Excellent resource when embedding from YouTube. I find a higher quality video generates more interest and views from people than a rougher version. While YouTube's high quality videos are good, they need to improve more to compare to Vimeo's player. Still, when you have a YouTube video, this is the way to use it.
• fd's Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos - Interesting utilities and creative stuff using your Flickr photostream.

Cool links for November 16th through November 17th:

• 181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers - List of free stuff to put on your site to make it easy for people to follow you on Twitter.
• The Fish at Bay: The Story of Biscayne Bay - An excellent example of multimedia and online journalism packages. Inspiration for future endeavors.
• Affordable On-Demand Business Applications: Find, Create on your own or Get it done by the community! - Tool for visualizing data. The future of information distribution.
• Teaching Online Journalism » Stuff to teach the next journalists - This is what young journalists need to do in order to have to make the best collections of stories relating to a particular topic.
• Visual Think Map - Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information - New tool visualizing data.
• 4 Steps To Creating Star Trails Photos Using Stacking Software - Star trails are some of the most stunning natural photographs. I've needed some tips to get together for some shots I'm setting up this winter on the Kittatinny Ridge.
• Twitter Tools: 80+ Ways to Tweet | studenthacks.org - Another comprehensive resource for Twitter resources.
• Lessons learned from podcasting, and time to start “real life” - SeanBlanda.com - Summary post from Sean Blanda about the "travel now, travel cheap" blog experiment "We Don't Speak the Language" co-produced with Christopher Wink. Blanda and Wink do an excellent job relating the pitfalls and breakthroughs in mobile podcasting, as well as touching on the great question for my generation: what do we do after college?

Cool links for November 13th through November 15th:

• Tip of My Tongue - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag - When you need the right word but you can't remember it (just a partial spelling or meaning) this is the tool to use.
• WebSource.it - Quick little tool for finding the number of times a word or phrase appears in search results versus another — hopefully similar — word or phrase in order to crowdsource via SEO. The idea is if one has more results than the other, it's correct.
• 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work | JobMob - Great series of templates for resumes.
• 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it… » - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog - Great CSS help for setting up crisp typography.

I’m taking a trip to Walter Hamilton Place between November 25th and November 30th.

I’ll be heading down to south Florida to get some experience — practical and life experience — with my dad. It’s a great opportunity to see some great habitat, increase my birding life list, and have an extraordinary break.

Photographs, notes, Flip-quality video, and good times abound. I’ll be sure to post about it once I get back.

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Cool links for November 10th through November 11th:

• Typealyzer - Interesting analysis of my attitude while blogging or something. Gonna explore it.
• Twitter to journalists: Here 19s how it 19s done - Eat Sleep Publish - Great example of how and why journalists need to use Twitter effectively.
• Penn State student arrested for photographing post-game riot - My friend and fellow NCC alum Michael Felletter was arrested for photographing students and thus "inciting a riot' at a Penn State riot after their loss this weekend. "The Daily Collegian" is sticking behind Mike and I'm glad to see student publications stand up for the rights of their student journalists.