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Leveraging what people are already doing
There’s a point here: There’s so much opportunity on the web — it’s just a matter of seizing it. So how can the web make LESS work for journalists rather than more? Which weekend assignment would you have rather had? Write human interest feature on the storm from scratch, call up people to annoy them…
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There you have it; now you don’t
And your excuse would be?
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Mashup fun
Enjoyed learning a bit about transforming XML documents with XSLT in doing some homicide mashup maps for a series of stories reporter Matt Lakin is doing. He had complied homicide cases since 2000 into two OpenOffice Calc (Excel compatible) spreadsheets. I converted the spreadsheets to XML docs, then “transformed” each XML document into an HTML…