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Super Tuesday, Geographic Alerts, and Maps in Election Coverage (Directions Media podcast): "Super Tuesday brought severe weather in the South and high-tech mapping and analysis in the media. Our editors examine the state of warning systems for severe weather and other hazards and praise the use of maps in election coverage."
Drupal 6.0 released (Drupal.org): Several major news and community sites are already using Drupal, and now it's supposed to be easier than ever to use. Expect this topic to come up on the Newspapers on Drupal group.
60 Second News (Evening Post, video):I'm with Paul Bradshaw on this -- definitely an example of how NOT to do an online news video.
Get over yourself and offer useful services (Steve Outing, Growing Your News Website): "'Get over yourself' means acknowledging and leading your readers and users to good sources of content beyond your news organization. It means becoming more useful as an intelligent filter to the massive amount of content thatâ€â„¢s available online."
Max, 19, hits the road (Guardian Unlimited): Warning to newspapers -- nepotism stinks, especially in blogs. Check out these comments. Ouch!
Teaching journalism students to Twitter: the good, the bad, and the ugly (Online Journalism Blog): BRAVO! "Online, journalism is not just making a Web page or a video; it is commenting on a blog, or bookmarking a Web page. There are no walls in cyberspace, only links. Journalism lies in every act you commit online. You just need to make it visible."
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