Could not resist adding this - from our Milford / Science reporter David brooks - in response to our 10th anniversary announcement: 

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So - another post about Twitter. Twitter and newspapers. Twitter and marketing. Twitter and people. 

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Pretty sure I am on the verge of breaking the Internet. 

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I had the pleasure of staying in a fairly nice hotel for 4 nights last week while at the Northern Short Course. I say "nice" with due dilligence, as my only complaint was the alarm clock in my room. 

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Someone tell me this is NOT a set up: 

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For all you Marshall McLuhan fans out there - a brilliant and brief (4:31 minutes) video examination of the impact of the Web on our lives. 

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It is becoming a fact of life at newspapers: good reporters and editors are still journalism gold but more and more often it is programmers who are the key to effectively delivering the news online. 

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An interesting blogologue (OK - it is a made up word, how do you describe a discussion that spans multiple blogs and comments?) made the rounds today concerning multimedia storytelling.

 

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This is really only directly relevant for people producing multimedia for the web - but Joe Weiss, genius/inventor of Soundslides has released a beta version of his software that allows the export of audio slideshows straight to video. 

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In a nod to Andy Warhol, it is frequently said that, "On the Web, everyone will be famous to 15 people."

 

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I have received a handful of questions about the security of our online polls today and over the weekend - so thought it best to post an answer here in case others have similar concerns:

 

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This email was received in response to the Telegraph's inquiries into an unusual number of votes a recent online reader poll received from a single IP address in Austin, TX:

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From: J. Ryan Earl [mailto:ryan@********com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:46 PM
To: Michael Brindley
Subject: Re: Nashua Telegraph Web poll

It is certainly about time you realized you had no mechanism in place to prevent people from voting multiple times, I was wondering how long it would take you to notice. I made no attempt to hide it, I could have proxied the requests off of countless IP addresses across the world.

 

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Google continues to release fascinating and usable new tools. The latest in Beta - Writely.com - an online word processor.

 

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If you tried to visit the Telegraph site early this morning, you may have noticed a very, very, very long load time for the pages. Basically, there was a problem with our advertising server, which is hosted by SaxoTech. None of the ads were loading and this was preventing the rest of the page from showing up as well.

The issue was resolved a bit before 8 a.m.

Our ISP finally solved the problem around 10pm on Thursday. 

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