A-rovin’ ‘cross the campus, Ronald Campbell, Laura Cochrane, Tara Kimura and I went this afternoon. From South Gate to upper Telegraph Avenue, we shot anything that moved — including ourselves. With a Canon Digital Rebel XT and a Garmin GPS receiver pinging satellites way over our heads, we strolled along and made a record of our afternoon jaunt.
And then we mapped it!
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I just logged into a Caspio Bridge trial account and followed their “wizard” instructions to create a searchable database using some pre-loaded 2005-06 FBI crime statistics.
Caspio powers the controversial Sacramento Bee state employee salary database and a bunch of other newspaper-site resources (like Jacksonville.com’s sex-offender database — where it was strange to see today’s most-read story on the site was a blog post about an offender’s escape from jail).
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Here’s a map that KTTWR fellow Tara Kimura made in the mapping class that Jerry Monti led this morning. I added a few local spots where I like to eat and drink. I also put up a few boxes to show places I went. Here’s a tip: You should probably zoom out a few clicks (by clicking on the map’s “minus” sign) to see more of those places. 
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On Tuesday afternoon, Matt Chittum (blog; Poynter E-Media Tidbits profile) laid out his transition from what he called the literary writing world to his data-cowboy title wrangling databases at Roanoke.com’s Datasphere.
Chittum spent a little over an hour pointing out free Web sites that Knight Digital Media Center fellows could use as resources, like Map Builder and Many Eyes.
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The fine folks at the Knight Digital Media Center accepted my application for their Technology Training Workshop for Reporters. Then they asked me for a bio.
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GEORGE KELLY is the online coordinator at Bay Area News Group-East Bay’s Contra Costa Times, a 160,000-circulation newspaper that covers San Francisco’s East Bay. His responsibilities include offering best-practices advice on blogging; moderating site forums, polls and reader-generated content; and collating the Sunday paper’s “online extras” section. A native of Washington, D.C., Kelly graduated with a bachelor’s in mass communications from Bowie State University. His first newspaper job was a Chips Quinn Scholar internship at the Oakland Tribune, which led to a schools and general assignment reporting stints with the Tri-Valley Herald in Pleasanton. He returned to Pleasanton two years later to work on ANG Newspapers’ universal copy desk as an editor and paginator before leaving for online copy-editor shifts at thestandard.com and salon.com. He joined the Times in 2001 as a copy editor and paginator and most recently worked as the paper’s first morning online reporter. He enjoys social media, songwriting and yearly jaunts to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest’s Interactive Festival.
There. That wasn’t so bad. Did I miss anything?
You’re more than welcome to look in on the lectures I’ll be attending the rest of the week.
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In this New York Times article, I think that should be Regina Belle, not Bell. Gee, I wonder how RushmoreDrive.com treats the results of that particular search?
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If I drag my still-packed suitcase down to the laundromat and wash the clothes I took to Austin earlier this month, I guess it will mean South by Southwest is really over.
How pathetic is it that it takes a major CMS upgrade to get me to sit down and compose a real post (instead of just auto-Twitter or auto-del.icio.us stuff)?
I’m glad I stuck with Dreamhost so I can one-click WordPress 2.5. I’ll have been using their hosting service for six years next month, and just recommended them to a couple of co-workers (one of whom was able to get a fantasy baseball league site up and running smoothly). Now I need to get back up to speed on the things I want to do to/with Negrophile and a couple of the other domains I have sitting on their servers.
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I said yes to a nice e-mail request, so one or two of my Mavis Staples pictures are likely to appear in an introductory slideshow at BAM’s 22nd annual Brooklyn tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn. It’s free and open to the public (first-come first-served seating) this Monday, Jan. 21. Staples will be singing the following night at the opera house; I don’t know if tickets are still available, but I do know she puts on a great show.
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I read descriptions for all 736 proposed panels at next year’s South by Southwest Interactive Conference. Here are at least six dozen and half a dozen more that deserve either five-star or four-star ratings. That means any one would either justify my trip or I will definitely attend them. (This is not to slight any of the other ideas, which include at least six dozen three-star-worthies — and, hey, you knew I’ve got a panel proposal you can vote for, right?)
What’s that matter? Well, if you like them too, you have less than nine hours — until 11:59 p.m. EDT today (Sept. 21, 2007) — to open an account and vote for them at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker. O click and see!
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