Geekish journalism and media ramblings from a student.

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?