http://busyjournalist.com/tech Helping citizen journalists set up weblogs Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:45:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/12/05/the-problem-with-your-blogs/ Because I’m an uber-nerd, this evening I was playing around with Google maps API. The service sent me a key to my Gmail account. The next time I opened a browser window, there it was - personalized Google! This is a great integration of the Google search ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/12/03/personalized-google-what-did-i-do-to-deserve-this/ This is from a podcasting discussion led by Jen Reeves from the J-School and Peter Main from IATS in Clyde Bentley’s Online Journalism class. Notes about podcasting from the industry side: If you don’t advertise it, nobody will know about it. The trick with keeping people interested in podcasts is keeping content flowing, ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/11/16/podcasting/ EndNote is one of those pieces of software that, after using it, you can’t figure out how you ever did without. I downloaded a 30-day trial at the EndNote Web site and fell in love after about a week. Mine and EndNote’s romance was quick — shifting from ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/11/05/an-affair-with-endnote/ Because I’m in charge of the Fall Photos contest for MyMissourian.com, I get a lot of e-mail photo submissions. Most of the time, people are having trouble with the “Share a Photo” form on the site because their photos are too big. Our system has trouble publishing photos ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/11/05/solutions-for-photos-killing-my-inbox/ This tutorial is for Mac users. Most J-School students use Apple computers, so this will be written from the Mac side of things. Part One: Getting onto your Bengal space First, let’s figure out how to log in to your Bengal space. Every MU student is allotted Web hosting space ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/11/05/publishing-a-podcast-to-bengal-space/ Here is a line of code from a default blogger template that might not make sense to you: body { background:#fff; margin:0; padding:40px 20px; font:x-small Georgia,Serif; text-align:center; color:#333; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; } a:link { color:#58a; text-decoration:none; } Here is that ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/10/13/tweaking-your-stylesheet-in-blogger/ Cascading Style Sheets hold the answer to many of the content-design problems. With CSS, writers can put a plain version of their page on the screen and later add the styling. CSS also guarantees that some form of the page will display. Older browsers have difficulty deciphering newer programming ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/10/06/what-is-css/ Web pages cannot possibly look the same in every browser or on every device. Achieving such a feat is impossible, considering the expanding possibilities of connecting to the Web via PDAs and cell phones, not to mention the array of screen sizes users prefer. The importance of Web ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/10/05/accessibility/ Internet readers’ attention spans are shorter, so their time is more valuable. The inverted pyramid style of writing so firmly cemented in journalists’ minds holds even greater weight online. The Poynter Institute’s eyetrack study found that when visiting a page, readers first look at briefs, captions and headlines. ... http://busyjournalist.com/tech/2005/10/03/writing-for-the-web/