May 7, 2010 • 4:37 pm 0
Analytics: Understanding Where they’re coming from
Google Analytics
Beginning Analytics video
Analytics basics
Google Analytics for WordPress Plug-in
Make Modest Money: Simple ad programs
Google Adsense
iTunes Affiliates
Amazon Associates
Raise Money
Kickstarter
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April 23, 2010 • 5:25 pm 0
FACEBOOK ANNOUCEMENTS
The keynote video
DATA
Database Journalism: The News Apps Team
Chicago Tribune’s City Council Allowance Explorer
Burr Oak Memorial
The Red Eye’s homicide tracker
Data Repositories
Data.gov
Transparency Data
NYC’s Data Mine
Data Visualization
Many Eyes: A great, free, visualization tool.
VIDEO
Finding your audience and your stride case study: Wine Library TV
Wine Library TV: episode one
Wine Library TV: episode 850
Additional references
Mindy McAdam’s excellent pointers on making good web videos
Mastering Multimedia a great blog written by a video journalist for the Spokesman Review.
Multimedia shooter a site with tons of references to great multimedia journalism and tons of tech.
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April 16, 2010 • 3:50 pm 0
Writing for the Web
Writing Persuasive Content
Page Rank
Page Rank Checker
The sites with a Page Rank of 10 for April
Search Engine Optimization
The Basics of Search Engine Optimization
Writing for Search Engine Optimization
Creating the Curious/Known combo headline
An excellent critique of the SEO “industry”
Calls to Action
Creating effective calls to action
37Signals tests calls to action
Flickr’s clear calls to action
37 Signals answers basic questions fast
Culinary Culture makes the sale
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March 19, 2010 • 4:22 pm 0
Google Web Elements: Simple copy & paste widgets that allow for a lot of interaction with Google content.
Google AJAX Search API Wizards: Slightly more complicated, but more powerful, than Elements for finding and displaying things from the web.
Twitter Widgets: including embeddable, real-time Twitter searches.
Facebook Widgets: Warning, I find these to be hinkey, but they’ll bring various bits of Facebook into your site.
The motherlode: Google Gadgets: Built by others, code for integrating everything from RSS feeds to games into your site.
Google Friend Connect: Note, these work only when a page is hosted. But they’re very cool: build an entire social network from copy & paste code.
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March 12, 2010 • 5:44 pm 0
Understanding the structure of a basic HTML document is crucial to, well, everything. To give you a head start, here’s a downloadable .html file with that basic structure, plus basic placement of CSS inside the head.
NOTE: clicking on that link will bring up a blank page. Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) to download the file instead.
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March 12, 2010 • 5:00 pm 0
Party like it’s 1994: The original website for Mosaic, the browser that changed everything.
Firebug, the Firefox add-on that lets you dig into site structure and design.
HTML TOOLS
Text Wrangler the free text editor we used in class today.
Bespin, the online text editor. Free and great (if not slightly buggy).
Pastie a great tool for pasting in your HTML code in order to, say, send it along to a teacher to find out what went wrong.
CSS TOOLS
CSS Zen Garden an incredible resource for downloadable CSS-based site designs. Don’t just take it out of the can, but look at what they’re doing and borrow code to tweak and customize and learn.
There are a number of additional tools for determining various CSS properties. One that’s endlessly helpful is CSS Type Set.
Color Picker a very intuitive web app to pick HTML-ready colors.
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March 12, 2010 • 4:46 pm 0
The best reference site that I’ve found to help you with grasping both basic and advanced HTML and CSS is a site called HTML Dog.
It not only includes a number of very good tutorials for people working at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, it also includes a complete reference for both HTML tags and CSS properties, complete with examples of use.
Bookmark it, and use it regularly. The best way to learn this stuff is to simply try it out and look at how other sites do it using a tool like Firebug.
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February 12, 2010 • 6:26 pm 1
the google suite
Google Docs
Google Calendar
Google Sites
the social networks
Facebook
Twitter
collaboration-focused tools
Basecamp
Drop.io
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February 5, 2010 • 6:27 pm 0
A basic paper prototype:
Complexity in paper:
OK, really, this is JUST PLAIN AWESOME:
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January 29, 2010 • 5:43 pm 0
Our friends, Chicago News Cooperative.
Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody is one of the best books about this transitionary time we live in. You should read it. Really.
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