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Nice overview:

• Easy publishing tools for online journalists
  To help you learn some of these skills and start experimenting with online journalism, we’ve assembled a list of sites and programs that will help you quickly and easily begin using multimedia and the internet to advance your reporting and your storytel
  (tags: journalism web tools howto)

Interesting stuff about information visualization. ( I like to have a powerwall too ;-) )

• Visual Analytics, Visuelle Datenanalyse, Information Visualization, Powerwall – Arbeitsgruppe Databanken, Data Mining und Visualisierung – Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim
  (tags: information visualization)

Some more on geocoding news:

• Prototype of St. Petersburg Google Maps integration by Larry Larsen
  Note: This is a prototype example of a newspaper integrated with Google Maps used in a presentation I do about news tagged with GPS coordinates. Larry Larsen
  (tags: geonews mockup)
• ditu
  This Blog is the documentation website of ditu a google maps mapping project. Here you can get the latest updates, developments, and research belonging to it. And it would be great if you would leave some comments and suggestions. Have a look!
  (tags: software wordpress plugin googlemaps)
• TripTheLightFantastic
  (tags: software wordpress maps geo)

Personalized news (made with python, even better switched from LISP to python) and some remarks, links  on the underlying technology:

• reddit.com: what’s new online
  reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit
  (tags: web2.0 personalizednews)
• Web Framework Redux
  This is an interim response to the discussion that followed my previous web frameworks blog. I need to do much more research, but I have some quick thoughts.
  (tags: python frameworks web webdev)
• web.py: makes web apps
  Philosophy Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen.
  (tags: python web framework opensource webdev)

Nice slideshows on my mac(s):

• PicLens: Cinematic Views for the Web
  The free PicLens plug-in enables you to: * View photos in full screen with a single click * Glide between photos from within full screen mode * Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums * Browse online photos with your Apple® remote
  (tags: tools slideshow macosx safari)

Interesting twist of the local event guide theme:

• HeyLetsGo Boston – What’s Happening, Who’s Going.
  HeyLetsGo helps you find fun things to do and fun people to meet.

  * Ever wish there’s one place where you can find all the events around town?
  * Wan

  (tags: web2.0 events restaurants networking boston)