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141 Eyewear's 'Everett' has style, purpose
It's hard to get around if you can't see clearly. Most folks who, like me, wear glasses know this all to well.
Portland, OR-based 141 Eyewear is trying to put more glasses on kids who need them using a non-profit attitude mashed with a for-profit company model made popular by shoe retailer TOMS.
And like Toms, 141 Eyewear's glasses are stylish and well made.
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Las Vegas Sun fixes newspaper comments
The Las Vegas Sun has solved the newspaper website comment problem as far as I'm concerned.
For the past few months, Rob Curley and team have been testing a solution using Facebook to verify users before they're able to post comments on select stories. This led to a site-wide change where registered users can choose to verify their identity via old-fashioned phone calls or by connecting with Facebook before commenting.
Or they can remain anonymous. Except their comments won't appear below the story as is par for the course these days. Rather, they'll appear on a separate page but still connected to the story.
This is also a good example of Matt Waite's Build Something or STFU philosophy.
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NewsTrain presentation on data publishing
The folks at the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) invited me to speak this week on telling stories with data at their NewsTrain event in Nashville at the First Amendment Center.
I presented to a mixed crowd of working journalists and journalism educators, which always makes for interesting discussion.
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UT class presentation on mobile news
University of Tennessee adjunct professor Jennifer Koella invited me to speak to her JEM 422 class -- one I taught a few semesters back -- early this semester on the topic of mobile news.
I obliged happily, being that mobile is a topic I hit on daily in my job as Content Manager with Scripps.
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Scripps launches social login, publishing
Visitors to Scripps' newspaper websites that also have a presence on Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Twitter or OpenID can now use those profile credentials to register and log in.
And if they've connected either Facebook or Yahoo! accounts, they can socialize their comments by posting to both a Scripps' website and their social network.
There's the obvious user benefits -- use the profile you use the most, and the ease of sharing commentary -- as well as returns to Scripps for increased user engagement, audience data and more exposure for content.
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How to add the Facebook 'like' button
UPDATE: This entry left out a critical piece of markup to get the Like button working in Internet Explorer. Just change your HTML tag the following:
<html lang="en" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">The Facebook "Like" is fast becoming a generic term though not quite to the extent of Google.
And despite the naysayers -- what does it really mean to "like" something -- adding the ability to like things to your site will help get your content into the Stream.
The launch of social plugins at this year's f8 event made it easy to add this button. But like most things, there's the easy way and the right way.
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Hi. I'm Patrick Beeson.
I'm the webmaster for the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, VA. I'm an avid homebrewer, cyclist, Web designer/developer, journalist and blogger.
And I enjoy finding innovative ways to enable a more informed public.
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