Links published on October 3, 2007
Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff
A good article (with a nice plug for Adrian), but the comments reiterate some important points which — having had a while to see and work with a number of news operations — match up with my experience:
- Most “traditionally”-trained journalists still don’t really understand the Web.
- The average pay in the news industry, regardless of experience or skills, is well below what even an entry-level programmer makes in other industries.
Neither of these bodes well for the future of the industry; newspapers need to sit up and pay attention, or their worst fears of irrelevance are going to come true.
Case pits police radar against GPS in teen’s car
Teenager issued a speeding ticket has GPS in his car, which his parents use to ensure he’s obeying traffic laws. Result:
The family says, based on the data, that Malone was going the posted speed limit of 45 mph on Lakeville Highway the morning of July 4 at virtually the same time and location where a Petaluma motorcycle officer used radar to cite the teen for going 62 mph.
Bonus points: the teenager’s father is a retired sheriff’s lieutenant.
This sort of thing is probably going to become more and more common as GPS works its way further into daily life.
TeX and LaTeX logo POSHlets
Nice example of what can be done with a little typographically-oriented CSS