projects « Rick Martin

My guest post on Journalism 2.0

Just a quick note to point out a recent project I’ve been experimenting with. Some of you might have seen me tweeting some nonsense about programming a feed generator tool recently. Mark Briggs must have lost a bet or something, because he let me write about it over on his site, Journalism20.com.
Essentially this tool takes [...]

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Brainstorming TokyoSocial on Google Wave

The discussion below is from Google Wave, and it’s mostly just me and some friends discussing a new Tokyo related project I’m thinking about (ok, it’s mostly just me and Alex). It follows along the lines of the kind of brainstorming that me, Alex and Chris have always done over email. Again, I like the idea of [...]

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Many Hands Make Light (Web) Work

I think my grandmother said that once (but the parentheses are mine of course). And if she had ever been into web design, I like to think that she might have made some cool sites by following this principle. I’ve made a bunch of websites over the past few years, but very few of them [...]

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Memetics & Accessibility

This is the third update about my OldNewfoundland.com Project. Here are the others:

Do Something
Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com

Drupal Modules installed this time: Content Construction Kit (cck) & Embedded Media Field (emfield), Voting API & Vote Up/Down, Views
Previously installed modules: Gmap, Location, Poormanscron
Also changed to White Jazz theme.

Memetics
The other day I met with @jcayzaq, @karamoon, and the [...]

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Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com

This is the second update about my OldNewfoundland.com Project. Here are the others:

Do Something
Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com
Memetics & Accessibility

Modules installed this time: Gmap, Location
Previously installed modules: Poormanscron
I blogged a few months back about my collaborative Japan map experiment, which is essentially an open Google map of Japan that anyone can edit much like a [...]

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Do Something

This is the first post about my OldNewfoundland.com Project. Here are the others:

Do Something
Maps, Drupal, and OldNewfoundland.com
Memetics & Accessibility

If I deleted my website, would anybody really care? I think everybody should ask themselves this question. In fact, lets go a step further. If you were somehow thrown from the planet by a sudden [...]

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