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Live Hurricane Gustav streams

UPDATE: I’ve taken the embedded players down – they automatically play and are a little annoying when you;re not actually looking at this post. Just follow the link to Ustream to check out the (now not live) feeds. Wow. This sent shivers up my spine. Live streams of Hurricane Gustav. You can hear news reports [...]
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A tool to help fix PR?

Pitchspace is featured today on the Guardian Tech podcast and also over on pda in more detail. Over to Jemima to explain: The idea is to offer a platform for PRs and journalists. PRs seed stories and releases, and journalists can pick up the stories they like and use Pitchspace to organise the material for that [...]
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Qik Football Reports

Just seen this via the Journalism.co.uk blog – the Express & Star using Qik for post-match video summaries from their reporters at the match. Done just after the final whistle, still with lots of stuff going on in the background, I love seeing free web tools used in a wider variety of applications like this. [...]
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Great tools for Mac-based bloggers

Problogger serves up a great list of tools you should check out if you haven’t already. Some on there I haven’t used and am going to check out. If I had to pick three completely indespensible ones mentioned it would be Imagewell, Cyberduck and Twitterific. Iain has also just posted about MacHeist too. Loads of [...]
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Hello, nice to meet you again

Wow. A bit of a radio silence there. Sorry about that. I blame the perfect storm of being hugely busy at work, being away at the weekends and having a lot of other stuff to do and on my mind. So, as by means of a bit of a catch up – here’s some stuff [...]
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Wooden Mirror by Rozin

Just a quick one while I’m thinking of things I love. It’s old now, but still fascinates me. The ultimate combination of old school and new school. Bring on more stuff like this (nice video of it in action). Enjoy it if you happen to have not seen this before. Also, I’ve found ImageWell an [...]
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