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It’s me, not the phone
July 1, 2009
About a year ago, Allison V. Smith came by to visit with our staff. While providing some great photographic advice, she shattered my illusion that my less-than-great iPhone snapshots were the fault of the device rather than the operator. Today, the NY Times Lens Blog picked up on her great iPhone photo work, proving once again that it's more talent than tools. (Hat tip to Frontburner. Also, you should read my favorite Allison V. Smith story here.)
Work In Progress — Like being a fly on the wall at PegNews.com World HQ
May 21, 2008: Harvesting the power of poop
May 22, 2008
Chad is investigating the inner workings of Dean Foods' anaerobic digestor, a device that uses methane from manure to make electricity. McKinney Minnie this week profiles park and recreation director Lemuel Randolph. John is reviewing Errol Morris' new documentary Mister Lonely. Scott has wasted no time in his new post and will soon be interviewing Robbie Knievel.
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New video comment feature
May 6, 2008
Erin already covered this in the piece on the new Radiohead contest, but I thought I should also make an official announcement here:
One of our relatively unique features has been allowing users, albeit only verified users, to post snips of code in their comments on the site. This usually means photo links or video embeds from YouTube or similar.
We only allowed verified users to do so as a security measure to prevent anything that might goof up the site.
However, we've now made it so any user can post YouTube videos in comments. And you don't even need to do the whole embed code. All you have to post is the URL of the video and we take care of the rest.
So this:
...becomes this:
Easy as pie. Note that this only works with YouTube for now. If you want to geek out with any of the other myriad video providers, you'll have to become verified. (Otherwise, we'd have to do individual programming for every new provider.)
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