Geekish journalism and media ramblings from a student.

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 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 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.