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Turning a discarded PC into a newsroom intranet server
(Note: This is version .5 of the article. I estimate five more rewrites to finalize this.) The newsroom recently upgraded computers used by its reporters. The computers, with clock speeds ranging from 166 Mhz to 500 MHZ, were early generation Pentiums and were primarily used for word processing. I told our editor-in-chief I wanted to…
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In Chile they call it davilar
A Taiwan stock trader, according to a Reuters report posted in News.com, “mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard.” The report said the company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million. The report said “the trader was unfamiliar with new computer systems and will…
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CFJ offers fellowships for working journalists
Here’s an announcement from Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University. I’m currently taking its Diploma Program on Online Journalism. MANILA, June 25 – Fellowship grants will be awarded by the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (CFJ) to working journalists interested in pursuing the Master’s…
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PCIJ, Newsbreak dominate Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism
From PinoyPress: PCIJ, Newsbreak dominate 16th JVO awards Yvonne T. Chua of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) bagged two of the top prizes in this year’s Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ). Now on its 16th year, the JVOAEJ run by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), held…
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Upgrading WordPress
While installing a plugin for WordPress early today, I read the notice in the dashboard for a security update. Since the update was a minor one and involved only replacing files, I proceeded to update the WordPress installations for my and my wife’s blogs. The actual update took less than a minute but the uploading…