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Chris Amico added the blog post 'There must be a better way' May 16
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I'm a multi-platform journalist just back from China. I've worked at a daily newspaper in Southern California and freelanced for magazines. Over the past year, I've taught myself to shoot video, build interactive maps, blog and put together audio slideshows.
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There must be a better way

I've been pouring over government budgets today, trying to find something interesting in the California Department of Justice outlays in the May Revise. Thrilling stuff. Part of what makes this so mind-numbing is the way information is packaged. Nearly everything is in PDFs. So when I'm trying to crunch numbers, the fastest way I found to do it is
  1. Copy and paste a long list of line items into a plain text editor
  2. manually turn that into a CSV, using find/replace to cut out comm
    3. …
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 at 6:20pm — No Comments (Add)

Future Newsrooms, sort of

I was at the Future of Newsrooms panel in Berkeley the other night and noticed a couple other people from this group in the audience. Love to hear reactions from anyone else who went. Here's the description:
Everyone is talking about the future of the newsroom in this new digital world where young people get their news from YouTube and Facebook, and traditional print journalists have seen hundreds of their breth…
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 at 10:50am — No Comments (Add)

More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.

Cross-posted in part from Eyes East

This might sound odd coming from someone learning Django, but bear with me. Kevin Anderson of Strange Attractor posed an interesting question the other day:

I hav…
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 at 2:57pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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