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The week wraps up with these non-Microsoft, non-Yahoo items:
- US: Charlotte Observer joins outsourcing wave, ad design team. The Observer cuts its ad design staff by more than half for 35-40 per cent savings in wages.
- University lockdown showcases power of citizen media. From UBC, where an email threat led to a lockdown, comes a post from Alfred Hermida showing how NowPublic led the early coverage, thanks to people on the scene.
- Top 10 rules for Limiting Legal Risk. Ten wise steps for those engaging in blogging, citizen media and general online publishing. From our American friends, but the rules are broad enough to keep you out of serious trouble north of the border, too. Click on each for the details (which are specifically American) and to take quizzes.
- It’s not just technology. It’s storytelling. Talking about video. With examples.
- You Suck at Photoshop #5. Poor, brilliant Donny.
- The 19 Most Loved Episodes of “This American Life”. Damn you, Darren Barefoot. There goes big chunks of my weekend.
- Why re-invent the CMS wheel? These are confusing times for newspaper publishers. Kevin Anderson’s post asks some good questions that may help cut through some of that confusion.
- A sad state for newspapers. A nice discussion has been unfolding at Visual Editors (which has reinvented itself as Ning social site) with any number of working journos and designers offering their take on the state of the industry. Last I looked, it expanded to parts two and three.
- Introduction to panoramas. One more for the tool box: a guide to producing those spiffy see-it-all photos.
- Why Newspapers will see off TV. Provocative title for a well-reasoned column by David Dunkley Gyimah.
