Kasper Sørensen

Online Journalist, Blogger, Social Media Producer, Fly Fisher and full-time Geek

Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ 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.

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Posted in Tools, Tutorials

Tags: google calendar maps mashups yahoo pipes

Search and filter tweets using Friendfeed advanced search

October 1st, 2009

Friendfeed aggregates and stores all the activity that is fed into the system. Most FF users bring in their Twitter feed, in effect storing all their tweets. It works a little bit like Google Reader, once it’s there, it will always be there, even if the original is deleted.

The advanced search features of Friendfeed makes it a pretty good twitter search alternative. It even supports real-time, so you can make your own twitter news monitors.

I wrote this for the Online Journalism Blog, read the rest there.

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Tags: friendfeed search twitter

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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Posted in Digital Journalism, Tools, Tutorials

Tags: google maps online journalism Tools

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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Tags: feedly friendfeed google reader rss twitter twitterfeed

How to move from iTunes to Songbird and still keep your library

May 2nd, 2009

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I tried Songbird back when it was still in beta, it was back in 2007. I remember being pretty excited about having an iTunes like media player for Ubuntu Linux, but as it turned out, it was pretty buggy and the iPod add-on wasn’t very good. I have been watching the roadmap closely ever since and as it seems now, It’s only one release away from being perfect for me. So, I decided to give it another go and went ahead and installed it.