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Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is still the sine qua non of vector image tools. It is hideously expensive and there are FOSS and task-specific alternatives, but if you can get access to it, learning to use Illustrator will pay you back. (Quick recap: Vector images use vectors, that is [Read More]

Simile

MIT’s Simile is focused on creating FOSS tools that “access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets”. Tools of interest include: Appalachian Babel Citeline HTTPTracer Java Firefox Extension jsTeX Longwell Piggy Bank RDFizers Referee Solvent Semantic [Read More]

Custom Google Maps and mashups

Google Maps is a mainstay of online geography, having by and large replaced MapQuest and so far resisted encroachment by Bing Maps (though the latter two are still serious players in this domain). Its relatively easy interface, multiple views and multiplatform presence make [Read More]

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Pulitzer board allows “any available tool” for journalism prizes

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced that 12 of the 14 journalism categories may now use text, video, databases, [Read More]

If every journalist is an online journalist, journalists who aren’t online don’t exist

Here’s a bombastic statement: There is absolutely no valid reason not to be online at this time. If you’re [Read More]

Curmudgeonry in journalism

Bryan Murley dismembers some journalism pundits’ recurring concerns that journalism education is ditching the [Read More]

Reporter/Blogger/Reporting/Blogging

Tim Carmody tries to take apart both the reporter/blogger split and the reporting/blogging split. Now, are different [Read More]

Talking to managers that aren’t the solution

Everybody has blind spots, handicaps in the way we see and perceive the world. I know people who are smart and [Read More]

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