Bookmarks for October 30th through October 31st

Cool links for October 30th through October 31st:

• Drupal Developer's Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – Learn how to set up Drupal with these resources. Covers Modules, theming and more.
• Breaking In: The www.JobsPage.com Guide to Newspaper Internships by Joe Grimm (Book) in Self-Improvement – Seriously? 5 bucks for a digital copy of a book about getting and acing the newspaper internship. Sign me up!
• How the state of the industry is affecting my college newspaper – Outline of the problems in a college newsroom.
• Journalists are being asked to do more online, often without guidance | BeatBlogging.Org – Thornton makes a compelling point — throwing technology at a problem isn't solving anything. First you have to plan out what to use and why it's effective. Then you implement the technology.
• Google Policy Fellowship – Work with Google over the summer debating broadband access policy, content regulation, copyright reform … the list goes on. So awesome.
• Ana Marie Cox Employs – Community Funded Reporting « “Community Funded Reporting” Spot.Us – Example of crowdfunding a journalist's trek on the political front. Cox used Twitter, blogs and other platforms to get donations and funding to continue her reporting. Excellent example!
• 10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development – NETTUTS – Key Webdev skills necessary for survival in turbulent economic times.
• Western Digital adds FireWire 800 to Mac-optimized portable drives : Obsessable Technology News – 500G Firewire 800 connective drive that runs without a power source? I'll take one please.
• Multimedia Urban Reporting.doc – Knight2008Applications – Proposal from Temple University to expand the resources of the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL). Students in the journalism program at Temple use the MURL for a capstone course where they cover local neighborhoods and stories. It's awesome.
• Teaching Online Journalism Data visualization resources – Good batch of resources for creating data visualizations. Some cool looking examples are inspiring.
• Tapeless video kit for less than ,000 | News Videographer – Summary of less inexpensive but great quality gear to start shooting video. From what I hear, tapeless is best.
• 7 Eye-popping interactive timelines (and 3 ways to create one) :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews – Excellent examples of timeline graphics and some useful free services for making your own. I've used Dipity before, it was useful but a little clunky, hoping they revamped the interface a tad.