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NAA - Edgie award entries now being accepted (29 October 2004)
Digital Edge award entries are being accepted until noon EST Monday, Nov. 22. The contest is open to all NAA newspaper members. . . .
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Hell in a handbasket (31 October 2004)
We finally are near the end of yet another election cycle that followed the well-worn path: Journalists promise themselves they will do . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Giving thanks in France (31 October 2004)
Regardless of who wins the election this week, I'm going to France. Not to stay, just to visit. I've already burned . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Crosbie: Circulation in possibly fatal free fall (2 November 2004)
Vin Crosbie says the latest ABC figures are dark news for the industry. He continues: It will doom them unless the newspaper industry . . .
From Yelvington.com on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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SND's '25 Moments' missed a big one
Design magazine, the journal of the Society for News Design, published a list of "25 Influential Moments in News Design" in its Fall 2004 issue. The articles aren't available online, but the list -- and a huge red flag from me -- follow:
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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A redesign, because it was time
I'll tweak it for weeks, I'm sure, but here it is: the latest iteration of Small Initiatives site design. Why? Mostly because the old design felt too Spartan, too flat, too texty. The colors were flat, chosen from the "Web-safe palette" that has since become irrelevant. And the liquid layout did not always present text at dimensions suitable for easy reading.
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Sorry it's so quiet
In the past few days, we've had one medical crisis in my wife's family and another in mine. Posting will remain sporadic until we know more about both. Thanks for your patience!
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Also sorry to Safari users
Just noticed a bad outcome in Safari from a glitch in pMachine Pro. It goes like this: I have my secondary home page items (the blog posts below the first one) set to truncate after a certain number of words, then allow a clickthrough to the full item with comments. Trouble is, when pMachine truncates in the middle of a blockquote, it doesn't close out the blockquote. Every other browser I've seen seems to forgive that mistake, but Safari expects the correct syntax and blows up...
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Real Meaning of Life Project
Why look further? Here's the Real Meaning of Life Project (link via Evhead). As the name suggests, it's an attempt to collect bits of wisdom about, well, the meaning of life.
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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The risk of reading in too much
I had no skin in the political game this year. In fact, I became so dismayed at the ugliness in all media, from all sides, that I effectively disengaged from political dialogue, voted early and, emotionally, moved on. At least I thought I had. But my eyebrows raised when I saw technical and design blogs making endorsements (who cares which candidates are supported by ranking members of the Web standards community?). And my nose crinkled when I saw brand-name poliblogs start to leak...
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Please update your Small Initiatives feed link
This is the old pMachine-generated version of SI's RSS feed. The new, WordPress generated one is here: http://smallinitiatives.com/feed/. Thanks!
From Sensible Internet Design on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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The difference between Copyright and Creative Commons licenses
Last week, we released our We Media paper jointly with The Media Center at The American Press Institute under a Creative Commons license. We've had several questions about what this means and why we would do such a thing. For those interested in repurposing We Media or creating derivative works, here are a few helpful answers to your questions:
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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It's a wiki, wiki, wiki world
Can wikis be used for news? Rebecca McKinnon has some interesting thoughts on a project-in-the-works - Wikinews.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Participatory media: Democracy's killer app
We thought we'd take Election Day as an opportunity on to reflect on what we observed about the 2004 election season and the impact of the internet and participatory media on the political process.
From Hypergene MediaBlog on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Picture power
The Washington Post has been on the front line for years with its feature Camera Works. Not only does one find portfolios of staff photographers or the famous Day in Pictures but also commented slide shows, such as this one of photographer Andrea Bruce Woodall on her From Lately on the Web on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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BusinessWeek interview transcript: Registration and BugMeNot
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by BusinessWeek reporter Olga Kharif for a piece on news-site user-registration. With her permission, I'm publishing the full e-mail interview here. What kinds of problems do sites like BugMeNot create for the papers you work for? BugMeNot doesn't create any problems for the newspaper sites I work for, because our sites do not require registration to access content. We use
From Holovaty.com on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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My 'Individualization of Content' Speech at APME
I spoke Saturday as the final speaker at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual conference, in Louisville, Kentucky. The conference's subject that day's was Newsrooms of the Future: Blueprints for Editors and Readers. Among the nine other speakers, Belden Associated President Sammy Pappert (a story about his speech) and Command-Post.org President Alan Nelson (text of his speech) were particularly good. My chosen topic was individualization of content. It's not a topic that many newspaper editors care to consider. If anyone would like to see my slides for the speech, you ca
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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I'm Signing Off ClickZ
During the past 30 months for JupiterMedia's ClickZ online marketing information site, I've written 39 columns about charging for online content. Writing them has been fun. The $100 honorarium JupiterMedia has paid me for each has bought some nice dinners. But I'll no longer be writing more columns for JupiterMedia (my last column was earlier this month, about the New England Journal of Medicine). I'll be writing new columns, but for this site. I've retained rights to the 39 columns at ClickZ and will soon integrate those into this site....
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Contacts in London?
I'll be in London this Sunday through Thursday on business. I'd like to meet some of the Londoners in new-media about who I'm read or heard. If you're one of them and care to have a pint with me then, please feel free to contact me. — Vin Crosbie...
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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My Thanks to London
I'm back from a week checking out the online publishing scene in London. My thanks to my hosts Mike Butcher, Andy Hart, Ian Jindal, Jemima Kiss, Seamus McCauley, Nico MacDonald, Michael Troxler, Simon Waldman, Richard Withey, and the staffs of the Langham and Charlotte Street hotels, and those of Cigala, Oriel, Passione, Smiths of Smithfield restaurants. My apologies to the people whose e-mails last week I haven't yet replied, but the Langham's charges of £0.50 per minute for broadband proved too daunting even on an expense account and T-Mobile UK's GPRS net was a bit
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Free Fall for U.S. Newspapers' Circulations
There is more and more evidence that U.S. newspaper circulation has begun a possibly fatal free fall. Beginning around 1964, daily newspapers' print circulations in the U.S. began steadily to decline at a compound rate of approximately half a percent per year. Every year, most of the newspapers' publishers reacted as if each year's decline was a temporary aberration, a short-term trend that would soon reverse. But by 1999 the rate of circulation declines began to accelerate. Daily newspapers began to suffer annual circulation declines of one to two percent. Circulation directors
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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More Thoughts on U.S. Circulation Declines
I've more thoughts about the accelerating declines in circulations of major U.S. newspaper: Many newspaper executives are blaming the new Do-Not-Call anti-telemarketing lists for a large portion of their newspapers' recent circulation declines. That is disingenous. In reality, the blame should be placed on those executives' and their products. Major daily newspapers in the U.S. have huge churn rates. The Newspaper Association of America has long reported that large dailies (those with more than 400,000 weekday circulation) generally have 50 to 60 percent subscriber churn rates e
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Bloggers Blew It: Much Posting, Little Impact
Let's gore a sacred cow. Or lets let Frank Barnako of CBS MarketWatch's eponymous Frank Barnako's Internet Daily do it. The headline above tops the commentary leading his report on Wednesday. "No one reads blogs," Barnako writes. Yes, Technorati is tracking 4 million blogs, RSS is no longer "a geek secret and now it's a bolt-on to My Yahoo!", and Blogads claims to be delivering 100 million banner ad impression per month. "All that may be true. It's just that after the presidential election, it appears to me that the only readers of blogs ... are bloggers! They are a go
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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BBC News Popup Translations to Learners of Welsh
You don't you read Welsh? If not, how will you know the Diweddaraf Newyddion o'r Cymru (Latest News from Wales)? It's hard to use y we (the Web) if you don't understand the language. The BBC understands, so its New Media Department in Wales has created Vocab, an open source website tool that offers English-language popup translations of Welsh words. Try it yourself on the BBC's Welsh-language news page. I may not let you fluently read Welsh (for that, you'll need the BBC's Learn Welsh pages), but at least you won't be uninformed while strolling through C
From Digital Deliverance on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Election coverage: Lessons learned
I have a few, and feel free to add your own in "discuss" below (or not): Exit polling as a prediction tool is officially dead. Posting exit poll data is the fastest way to crash your blog. It was refreshing...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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NBC, Fox come away ratings winners
The Nielsen numbers are in for the 8-11pm ET block of election coverage......
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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CNN.com shatters traffic record
For a 24-hour period ending at 4pm ET today, CNN.com racked up approximately 650 million page views. "We will look back on this moment as a watershed moment in election history when people seized the mouse as their new remote...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Network pollsters blame the bloggers
The nets are miffed that a handful of political blogs posted the faulty exit poll data. "I think people believed them, and it's particularly the case with Internet bloggers," said Kathy Frankovic, CBS News' polling director. "That's unfortunate because it...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Spammers react to election
Some creative post-election spam making the rounds. Very funny....
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IBS celebrates 'very successful' election
Traffic at Internet Broadcasting Systems affiliates jumped an average of 30% on election day and surged even higher the following day. "[Tuesday] I think was about TV," said Nancy Cassutt, VP of content at IBS. "[Wednesday] was about the Web."...
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Cable eats into network election coverage
Compared to 2000, NBC dropped 17%, ABC fell 11% and CBS lost 27% of its viewers. Meanwhile, Fox News tripled its ratings. (WSJ sub. only) Earlier: NBC, Fox come away ratings winners...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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News Corp. profit soars
Thanks in part to Fox News, News Corporation's quarterly profits rose 27%. But: Time Warner reports decline in quarterly profits...
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Brokaw appears on Letterman
It was a busy 24-hours for Brokaw. Election night coverage until 6am. The Today Show. Nightly News. And Letterman (taped just before Nightly). "We've gotta fix the election system in this country," Brokaw told Letterman in an unusually serious interview...
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Welcome to November sweeps
Every four years, those of us who work in local TV news have the distinct pleasure of entering the November book exhausted from the election. Plus: Time to resurrect our TV news artificial urgency vocabulary...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Movie studios to unleash lawsuits
Hollywood lawyers won't quit. First the record companies, now five of the seven big movie studios will sue people swapping flicks on the web. Really now, how many people are downloading entire movies? "Lawsuits against file sharers don't appear to...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Content Rules
According to the Online Publishers Association, content surpassed communication as the number one reason people went online in September. The OPA says it's the first time that email hasn't been the top draw. "We are witnessing a shift in how...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Fox to launch cable biz channel
...and a Fox reality channel by second quarter, as well. Never mind that CNNfn has tanked. "It never had the distribution," says Rupert Murdoch....
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Coming: local NBC weather channels
They're been discussing it for years, but Multichannel News reports NBC will launch a new 24 hour digital weather service in New York City that features NBC4 New York meteorologists. (It will appear locally on channel 731, which only dogs...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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What I learned from the election
It's the day for postmortems in newsrooms around our country, and I thought I would add my observations about our television and web coverage to the mix. There's always something to learn from experience, and Lost Remote would be a...
From Lost Remote on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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Preventing the Vote
  • Bob Herbert (NY Times): Days of Shame. Overseas, our troops are being mauled in the long dark night of Iraq - a war with no end in sight that has already claimed the lives of more than 1,100 American troops and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of innocent Iraqis. At home, the party of the sitting president is systematically stomping on the right of black Americans to vote, a vile and racist practice that makes a mockery of the
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    China's Continuing Net Censorship
    Meanwhile, the regime in Beijing just can't stop closing down Internet cafes (Register), part of the government's attempt to stifle political dissent even as it liberalizes economically. In the end, they can't do both successfully, because a vibrant free economy depends in part on political freedom.
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    Oracle-PeopleSoft: It's Almost Over
    Oracle's "best and final" offer for PeopleSoft, in which it raised the offering price in its hostile takeover bid, is probably not the last offer. But the writing is on the wall for PeopleSoft, and its directors should read it. At the least, PeopleSoft is unlikely to remain independent for much longer. Maybe a white knight will swoop onto the scene, but the odds are now strongly with Oracle. Customers of Oracle or PeopleSoft won't be happy with the result, at least in the short and
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    The Blogosphere's New Sound
    Australian Broadcasting's Stan Correy recently interviewed me, among many others, for this report called "Music of the Blogospheres." Lots to chew on here.
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    E-Voting Watch Sites
    Some of the top electronic voting experts have launched evoting-experts.com, to monitor and aggregate information during this week's balloting. They've found some problems already, as you'd expect. For another perspective, see the Voting Technology Project from Caltech and MIT. I recommend a look at Ted Selker's paper (huge pdf), even though I don't agree with his view that electronic voting is ready for prime time.
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    Californians: Ask for Paper Ballot
    I'm voting tomorrow in Santa Clara County, and will ask for a paper ballot. This is my right, but it turns out that the county's top voting official has instructed voting site personnel not to volunteer the availability of this paper ballot. If you are voting in one of the many counties with untrustworthy -- that is, lacking a voter-verifiable paper trail -- machines, you have the right to ask for a paper ballot. Exercise that right; don't let the registrars' unwillingness to do a little extra w
    From Dan Gillmor'apos;s eJournal on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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    Election Day
    Vote.
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    Intimidation Gets Court OK In Ohio
  • NY Times: G.O.P. Can Challenge Voters at Ohio Polls, Court Rules. In a day of see-sawing court rulings, a federal appeals court ruled early today that the Republican Party could place thousands of people inside polling places to challenge the eligibility of voters, a blow to Democrats who had argued that those challengers would intimidate minority voters. So it comes down, again, to judges who were appoin
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    A Long Wait to Vote, But Well Worth It
    I waited until mid-morning to visit my polling place, figuring the line would be shorter. It took me more than an hour from the time I joined the line until I reached the booth. People are taking this election with the seriousness it deserves. And whoever wins the presidency will know that he is vehemently opposed by half of America. The nation's political battles are not nearly over, in other words. At the polls, no one told me of my right to use a paper ballot. I had to ask. A scandal. If you're in California and will be voting later today in a county using non-verifiable electr
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    A Report from Columbus
    Chris Kelly, a Bay Area lawyer, is one of the Democrats who's traveled to Ohio this week to keep an eye on the Republican ballot-challengers. He's sending me periodic updates, which I'll post here in blog format (unedited; most recent item at the top): 16:28 Pacific Time The final voters are on their way in the doors, with about 10 minutes left to go. Things have settled down a bit, but there are still at least 70 people in each line (two precincts vote together at this location). Ohio is clear that everyone in line at 730 votes, so we shouldn't hav
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    Declaring Victory
    The networks, falling into line under pressure from the Republicans, have all but declared a Bush victory. If the numbers hold up, as they seem likely to do, that will be accurate. The Republicans have almost certainly expanded their congressional majority. (As I write, the Republican in South Dakota has declared himself victor without all the votes all being counted.) There is nothing good about this election for the Democrats. More tomorrow. But I sign off with this thought: We will not recognize America in four more years. That will make half of America giddy. It will terrify the other ha
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    Four More Years
    UPDATED Kerry has conceded, properly so. And now we're onto the next four years. The Republicans have an even stronger congressional majority. They have shown how gladly ruthless they can be in using their power. Bush and his allies have never believed in compromise. They have even less incentive to govern from the middle now, even though the nation remains bitterly divided. There's no secret about what's coming. We don't have that excuse this time. Here comes more fiscal recklessness -- as we widen the chasm between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else, cementing a plu
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    Election: The Net Did Change Things
    (This is also my column today in the San Jose Mercury News.) In January, congressional candidate Ben Chandler was running in a special election to fill a vacant seat from Kentucky. His campaign manager spent a couple of thousand dollars advertising on some political Weblogs, hoping to drum up some cash for the campaign. The $2,000 investment paid off -- big-time. Chandler, a Democrat, raised more than $80,000 from those ads, and he went on to win by a substantial margin.
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    California's Stem Cell Vote
  • Mercury News: State takes stem-cell spotlight. Embryonic stem-cell research was born in Wisconsin. It matured in Massachusetts. But it will grow up in California, nourished by the passage of Proposition 71, which authorizes $3 billion in spending over 10 years, science-policy experts predict. It's already growing up in Singapore, the U.K. and other nations not ruled by religious fundamentalists, actually. But California may catch up. I urged a vote against this ballot proposition, ma
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    LexisNexis via BlackBerry
    LexisNexis is now available via via BlackBerry wireless devices. A fantastic resource for journalists on the go....
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    E-Voting: Promise or Peril?
    Fifty million Americans will use touch-screen voting systems Nov. 2. Here's an excellent package from washingtonpost.com looking at e-voting, including three made-for-the-Web videos and an interactive map of D.C.-area voting systems....
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    ABCNews.com redesigns
    New type faces, a much cleaner design, addition of RSS feeds, and very nice integration of video onto the home page, including a free clip of the day that plays right on the cover. A big improvement for ABCNews.com....
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    WSJ's Morning Brief
    The Wall Street Journal Online is launching a Today's Papers-like feature, The Morning Brief, a daily e-mail that provides analysis of the past day's news-as seen by a variety of media and other outlets -- along with breaking overnight news....
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    Vote by Issue
    PBS NewsHour and WBUR, Boston, have just launched a blind-quiz, votebyissue.org, where you choose the position that most closely reflects your own on 20 issues, and then get a report card that reveals the candidate who most reflects your views....
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    Cool electoral college calculators
    No matter how many popular votes a candidate gets, he needs more electoral votes to win the presidency, a fact that the 2000 race made all too clear. This time around a number of sites have put together fantastic interactive...
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    The power of slide shows
    At about 3:15pm Thursday, Boston.com passed the 15.5 million pageview mark, making the day after the Red Sox World Series victory a new record for Boston.com. That's not so surprising. But here's what's really interesting: Boston.com's photo galleries received 8.5...
    From CyberJournalist.net on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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    Rock 'em Sock 'em
    Relieve some campaign stress with this game from projo.com (the brainchild of projo.com's chief designer Mike Foran)....
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    Will bloggers post exit polls, call race before news organizations?
    This question has been floating around the blogosphere lately, but seems kind of pointless -- since 1996 Slate's Jack Shafer has been breaking embargos and posting exit poll information online, as has Matt Drudge. You can expect them to do...
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    Election night quick links
    As the 2000 election showed, you never know what unexpected surprises may crop up on election day. So here are some quick links to help you make sure you've got everything you need to compare results to past elections and...
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    Election night online coverage
    What is the most interesting election night coverage you've seen online? What is your site up to? Who's doing the best job blogging the election? Post links, your thoughts, here, and click to see what sites other people have posted.......
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    Election night blogs
    Not surprisingly, nearly every major news site has one or more Weblogs blogging the election -- not to mention all the independent bloggers out there. Blogging has clearly gone from an independent hobby that a few news sites dabbled in...
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    Exit polls online early
    As expected, Slate and the Drudge Report posted exit polls before news networks and polls closed -- like they've been doing since 2000 -- and bloggers followed suit. For those who don't recall, Slate's Jack Shafer was the first to...
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    101 Websites Captured
    Election coverage screenshots from Poynter: Wed., Nov. 3 @ 2 p.m. Wed., Nov. 3 @ 7 a.m. Wed., Nov. 3 @ 3 a.m. Tues., Nov. 2 @ 8:30 p.m....
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    News site election traffic spikes
    From Cnet: The Washington Post site charted 1.1 million visits, an increase of 98 percent from its daily average, while that of Fox News generated 1.8 million visits--roughly 73 percent more traffic than usual. Other news companies had similar spikes,...
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    The Blogs' Long Tail: Blogs And RSS Profit Potential
    Robin Good summarizes, in his usual effective style, the Morgan Stanley analysis of RSS carried here last week, for those of you who don't want to read the entire document in analyst-speak. By Luigi Canali De Rossi, Robin Good, October 27, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]
    From OLDaily on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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    An Example of Using Metaphor in E-learning Design - The Research Observatory
    I have written and spoken from time to time about the appropriate use of learning objects as being placed as elements in a 'learning environment' as opposed to joined together like bits of text as pages or chapters in an online course. This article and associated presentation represent large steps toward the sort of think I am talking about. Follow through the presentation to the end and you'll get a userid and password to enter a functioning reasearch observatory - some of the content is not complete,
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    Conveying Rights Expressions About Metadata in the OAI-PMH Framework
    The Open Archives Initiative has released a draft specification describing rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework. The mechanism essentially involves pointing to a rights language schema (OAI is neutral regarding which rights language is used) and then either embedding or referring to a rights expression from within a set of rights tags in the OAI metadata. The rights described apply specifically to the use of the metadata itself, not the resource described by the metadata (but you have to assume a similar mechanism for resources would be the way to go). For me, the importa
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    The Role of Web Services Registries in Service Oriented Architecture
    Good introduction to the concept. Outlines the use of different types of registries systems within a web services environment and identifies market leaders. PowerPoint; a PDF is also available. By Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group, November 2, 2004 [Refer][Research][From OLDaily on November 4, 2004 at 2:41 p.m..
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