Silfies Scope

Cool links for December 12th through December 15th:

• Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating - Excellent frameworks for developing CSS. Developing time looks drastically shortened.
• Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. - Amazing way to make screencasts and easy to follow directions for performing actions on your computer. Best part? It's free!
• WordPress 2.7: If You Don't Like It, Change It - ReadWriteWeb - With 2.7 WordPress is easily moving toward functioning as a full-fledged CMS.
• screen-scraper Support | screen-scraper community - Excellent resource for getting data out of Web sites.
• Addictomatic: Inhale the Web - It's like Google, but better. More of an aggregator for topics including Twingly, Twitter searches and other sources.

Cool links for December 9th through December 11th:

• 15 Tech Secrets for the Serious Road Warrior - Business Center - PC World - When you travel all the time (or work outside of an office) you'll need to know how to be productive with what you've got. Favorite tip: when you've got a meeting and every one has laptops, but there's only one ethernet jack and no wireless, turn your laptop into a makeshift router.
• 10 Tips For Creating Website Mockups In Photoshop // Plasticmind Blog - I've recently started using Photoshop to mockup Web sites. With that said, there's always room for improvement, and some of these tips come through for creating a professional and clean design.
• Crunchberry Project - Medill's project of journalists using geography and technology to give audiences information.
• My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too - Don't let your portfolio hold you back! Keep in mind it has to be easy to navigate and clean, regardless of what services you're showing off, otherwise people will stay away.
• GOOD » The 51 Best* Magazines Ever» - GOOD covers magazines: The best, the brightest, the coolest. Some of these aren't surprising, while some jump out at you. Good compilation.
• 60 ridiculously useful tools and generators for your blog or website - Spell checkers, design aids, SEO optimization … the list of tools goes on and on. I don't use all of these, but the tools I do are incredibly important.
• TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool - Pasting data from spreadsheets so I can turn it into an HTML table with the press of button? Two please!

Cool links for December 7th through December 9th:

• :::Philebrity 26media, culture, music and more::: Blog Archive Breaking: Brian Tierney's Message Of Christmas Cheer - See Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya - Layoffs planned at the Philadelphia papers. Tough times for the industry coupled with the Tribune filing.
• ConflictPics Dispatches - Jason P. Howe has one of the most inspiring and moving sites on photography in difficult situations. Reading the dispatches coupled with the photos is an extremely powerful narrative.
• Be inspired! 12 ways to find the best in data visualization :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews - I want to learn to use data in reporting and presenting. To get started, you need to find the inspirational visualizations and build from there. Stepping stones unite!
• Tips and Tricks for the 5D MKII - PART II - Audio Vincent Laforet's Blog - LaForet's tips when recording audio while shooting video on the 5D MkII. The greatest piece of advice (IMO) is separate recording of audio to ensure quality.
• Wanted: Resident Butt-Kicker (Thoughts on journalism education) | The Linchpen - Greg Linch hits the nail on the head for getting the best j-school educators possible. The ideas Greg puts out there are the ideas batted around in newsrooms and logically he presents the need for these ideas to be out there while the new journalists are still in school.
• compfight + a flickr™ search tool - Hooray for creative commons search of Flickr photos.
• Snipt - Have those snippets of code you use a lot but forget? Snipt is a repository of your coding knowledge.
• When Santa Turned Green - Best Holiday Book for Kids « Green Life Smart Life - Even Santa's an environmentalist! I'm definitely buying one of these for my nephew since it looks like an excellent way to introduce the ideas of global climate change and activism to children.
• Water Wars - Water is swiftly becoming the most important resource in the world, even greater than oil. Multimedia and interactive story telling is the part of the advocacy for this cause.

Cool links for December 7th from 21:27 to 21:56:

• 7 Offbeat, Off the Grid Gadgets, Inventions, and Innovations | Ecoble - Weird ways to save the planet.
• WJ Tutorials: How to start a podcast - Wired Journalists - Tutorial on how to start a podcast from BeatBlogging.org writer Pat Thornton.
• If I Started Today | chrisbrogan.com - If you haven't started with social media, this is the best guide I've found to get moving. If you have, make sure you're following some of this advice.
• HOW TO: Get the Most Out of FriendFeed - Friendfeed is the major Twitter competitor. I have an account but I don't know how to use it in a useful manner. Hoping to change that.
• Voltaic Systems | Voltaic Backpack - A bag that charges your cell phone/PDA while walking? Sign me up! (Now if only they could get it to charge my MacBook Pro …)
• 10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook - Web Producer - Great list of tools for web development and coding. The idea is to compile useful resources for designing and developing web products.
• HD Video Cameras, Rentals and Equipment at Zacuto.com - Manufacturer of high quality, and stable, mount for video work. Their DSLR mounts are incredibly impressive and potentially worth looking at if you're planning on using a DSLR to shoot video so the product is stable and professional looking.
• Amazon.com: Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era: Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Books - Who thought a book would be the way to learn radical change in a digital environment?
• Twitter Groups - Redesigning Journalism ~ changejournalism - Group for discussing the changes required for journalism.

Cool links for December 4th through December 5th:

• BarCamp / NewsInnovation-Philly - Wiki page for the NewsInnovation Bar Camp. Sean Blanda created the Philadelphia page, and I'm willing to help bring this event to the city.
• CPJ's 2008 prison census: Online and in jail - Imprisoned - Committee to Protect Journalists - Surprising how the number of journalists in jail changes on their output medium. Since online journalists take the lion's share, does this mean they're covering delicate and controversial topics, or because they have the least amount of legal aid available to them?
• Journalist? Searching? Here’s Where to Find Work - With the media industry sinking, it's important to have resources to find that job. Chrys Wu does an excellent job compiling a list so the unemployed have a place to go.