Archive for the ‘Tools’ category

How to make interactive geographical timelines using Google Calendar and Yahoo Pipes

October 14th, 2009

I was recently given a task where my job was to create a calendar holding around 50 events. Each event also needed to be mapped, and have a corresponding blog post.

Mapping calendar entries made me think, if this could be used for other stuff than simply putting events on a map, – which is quite useful in it’s own way. I thought it would be cool if you could create an interactive map-timeline, controlled dynamically by a (shared)calendar.

Read the rest of this tutorial in my article on the Online Journalism Blog.

Google Maps: An essential tool for online journalists

August 7th, 2009

I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out, together with the lovely guys at Seismonaut, what tools are the most essential for todays online journalist (see our list). One thing was to figure out what they were, the other is writing something down that is useful and encourages a hands-on approach. And if it can help eliminate the fear of using that kind of technology at the same time, well, that’s just a bonus.

Here’s a short rundown of the main points in the first draft.

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Quickly share stuff from Google Reader on Twitter without using Twitterfeed

July 27th, 2009

Twitterfeed is great but it’s not perfect, it’s not real-time. You can use Friendfeed to bring in your Google Readers’ shared item and republish them to Twitter.

Friendfeed let’s you publish everything, or a few selected services to Twitter. If you have a lot of stuff going into your Friendfeed stream, you might not want to share everything on Twitter.

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Friendfeed and Twitter are different, but how exactly?

May 4th, 2009

ff-twitterI have been posting some ideas and thoughts about Twitter and friendfeed on both of their services. Mostly questioning how they compare or differentiate. I believe they contemplate each other in one way or the other, but haven’t really figured out how they fit together just yet.

It seems like hardcore twitter users are mostly trying to compare the two services, and friendfeed users take pride in separating the two.

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How I’m going to get more followers/subscribers on Friendfeed

April 29th, 2009

I have never really used Friendfeed in any really engaging way. The conversational aspects of the service is fantastic, but I haven’t really been able to unlock the full potential of it. Until now I have been using Friendfeed mostly as an aggregator for my own content, only to redistribute it using the Facebook widget and the ‘post to twitter’ option. I also used it to remind myself which social networks I’m signed up to, Friendfeed gives me a nice list.

Kasper's Friendfeed subscriber

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