• amaztype - Pretty neat.
• President - Election Results 2008 - The New York Times - This page is in the running for the handful I'll keep up on my browser tonight.
• Teaching Online Journalism » Data visualization resources - I like the part where Mindy says she's stingy with bookmarking on Delicious. Lately, I've been anything but!
• Where and How to Watch Election Day Results Online : Ricochet by Chrys Wu - I'll be playing around with these while I wait for the first batch of results on Election Night.
• Snapshot of Presidential Candidate Social Networking Stats: Nov 3, 2008 - Some convincing numbers on how much stronger Obama is on social media

Rather than post a lot of links individually, I’m buying in bulk. Here are two aggregations of online resources to help you watch the election results stream in. Go past the jump to see live results from MSNBC’s embeddable widget.

• Read Write Web
• Ricochet by Chrys Wu

• Where to Get Live Election Night Coverage Online : CyberJournalist.net - I can't believe spokesmanreview.com didn't get a mention!
• Twitter Vote Report : CyberJournalist.net - A civic-minded application of Twitter. Would love to see somebody follow this and evaluate its efficacy.
• washingtonpost.com - TimeSpace: Election - Great idea. Novel way of organizing a huge volume of stories and photos geared toward a neational audience.
• Link Once, Publish Everywhere: Publish2 Launches Connection to Twitter and Delicious » Publish2 Blog -
• What’s the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site? — contentious.com - "If you think you’ll want to do more than blog, choose a platform that will let you expand. If you think you’ll want things like a forum, video library, or wiki, you’re probably better off building a site in on a more full-featured platform like Wordpress, Drupal, Movable Type, or Expression Engine."

• PC World - 8 Ways Twitter Will Change Your Life - "I figured if the candidate wasn't on Twitter, they most likely weren't right for the job." When I get a job partly due to having a Twitter account, I will eat my shoe.
• Stuff journalists like - Comic relief that tries to (cheaply) ride on the coattails of Stuff White People Like.
• Christian Science Monitor to drop weekday print edition - Romenesko - It's notable when a big name moves to web-only. Wouldn't be surprised to see more of this coming.

Feed me, Internets.

I’m not shy about adding feeds to Google Reader. I’ve got 79, which is neither astronomical nor shabby. But today I noticed that I regularly turn to a mere handful for reliably good dirt on online journalism, social media, multimedia, etc. I can always expect solid links, instruction, inspiration and news about the news from:

• Teaching Online Journalism
• 10,000 Words
• Journerdism
• Cyberjournalist
• Romanesko

Now that I’m making better use of Delicious and try to feed it with a bunch of great finds pertaining to online journalism every day, this just isn’t enough.

Queue 10,000 Words, which recently had a great post on the 20 Essential Feeds for Multimedia Journalists.

Got any more essentials that 10,000 Words didn’t mention? Spill ‘em here.

• How to Use FriendFeed as a News Ticker | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion - This kind of intrigues me. For this ticker to convey much information, I'm going to need to follow more people on FriendFeed. Goodbye Twitterific?
• Time to move on… « Mastering Multimedia - Among the many ringers to the head brought by the recent S-R layoffs, the effect on Colin's video-expansion efforts was a painful punch to the kidneys. I know he'll master his photo/video juggling act yet.
• Teaching Online Journalism » Reassessing newspaper video - What's up with newspapers and video these days? "What is still frigging hard about all this — a news Web site today is not the buffet table that a printed newspaper used to be. I am not browsing around randomly on your Web site, happening upon your loveliest desserts or videos as I peruse the latest miserable financial news."
  Damn, that's a good point.

• Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says — mathewingram.com/work - In answer to Paul Boutin. "Is everyone going to have a blog? No — and they never were. Facebook and Twitter are probably enough for many people. Not writing at all is enough for many people. But why does it have to be all or nothing?"
• Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 - "Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug."
• Video Journal: Green Bluff grape harvest - This one goes out to Thuy. "Stephanie and Davide Trezzi have been growing wine grapes for three years. This year, they're passing a total of five tons of barbera and dolcetto to winemaker Don Townshend, making it the first time a Green Bluff wine will be made exclusively from Green Bluff grapes."

It’s been a strange five weeks. It began with a relaxing Montana getaway and culminated Friday night with toasting two dozen laid-off colleagues at the billiards hall down the street from the newsroom.

Rewind. On Oct. 1, eviscerating cuts were announced at my newspaper, The Spokesman-Review. It’s old news by now for industry and S-R followers: Twenty-one mostly younger staffers were named in an involuntary layoff roll call. Steve Smith resigned as editor. The next day, Assistant Managing Editor for Local News Carla Savalli stepped down. Managing Editor Gary Graham has been tapped to take the editor’s reins. Last Wednesday, three managers were laid off, and another was moved to a nonmanagerial position.

Amazingly, I still have a job. The layoff list stopped just below my name. But I haven’t felt much like celebrating. Or, evidenced by my five-week blog hiatus, reflecting on my trade.

My departing co-workers are an insanely talented bunch. A few have gone public with their fates (here, here). My co-producer, Thuy Dzuong Nguyen, was on the list and wrote emphatically about the impact of these cuts (Colin Mulvany republished it on his blog). Her last day was Wednesday, and I’m already feeling the increased workload.

These were not just co-workers: Nearly all were friends. Many of us bonded on the Gang of Eight newsroom reorganization squad. I played music with one. I hung out with others. One of the managers gave me my first journalism job.

This has made for a depressing few weeks. But last week, I decided I couldn’t stay in this rut of gloom any longer. If I’m going to stay sane in this job, then I’ve got to dive back in head-first. I’m not alone. This isn’t to diminish the loss of my former co-workers. I’ll notice their absent every day. But I can’t dwell on it.

We have a huge election coming up. Our new website should launch in the not-too-distant future. And there remains plenty of multimedia to produce and package on our current site. I shouldn’t have trouble staying busy at work.

The remaining question is how I’m going to breathe life back into my blogging and the professional development resources it showcased. I’m going to do some reflecting on this site and my long-dormant Burger, Revised. I want to follow Mindy McAdam’s advice and make fuller use of social bookmarks and Twitter.

Stay tuned.

Five points to anybody who guesses the significance of the above image to this post.

I’m fortunate to work for a newspaper where many people do get it. We commit sizable resources to video, audio and other multimedia. We’ve launched a radio studio with hourly reports. We’re about to unveil a new website that gives readers tremendous power to find information in the way that most makes sense for them.

But, a few days after getting back from a vacation in Montana during which I avoided the Internet, I have to wonder: Where can I take the lead?

This is likely a case where there’s no upper limit on leadership. And I was not the driving force behind any of the initiatives listed above, so I’d like to find that area where I can “step up” in my newsroom.

Helping my co-workers learn and master our new django site admin will certainly give me one avenue. Any other ideas?

And now I offer a mea culpa. Thanks to commenter/journalist/blogger Craig McGinty, I’ve learned that Flickr preemptively answered my lament.

Here’s the same photos I posted yesterday but in a Flickr skin:

I like the look, the share features, and the full-screen toggle.

This tool is a digital SLR to Slide.com’s Polaroid camera: the latter still has campy appeal and a distinctive effect, but the former is a lot more practical and professional. Of course, that metaphor breaks down at the cash register. Both Flickr and Slide provide free accounts.