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Archive for August, 2007

Facebook says: we really mean no

Posted by damon kiesow

Well - I am taking this as a final no if for no other reason than I am tired of emailing with their CSRs:
Hi Damon,
In accepting Facebook's Terms of Use, you agree not to use the Service or Site to "register for a User account on behalf of an individual other than yourself, or register [...]

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Facebook doesn’t listen very well

Posted by damon kiesow

Well, after two weeks of cryptic customer service emails from Facebook about our deactivated account - I finally got another 'real' answer today:
 
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Hi Damon,
Facebook profiles are intended for use by a single individual.  Groups, clubs, and other types of organizations are not permitted to maintain an account.  I apologize for the inconvenience, but you will [...]

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Ok, we rock

Posted by damon kiesow

Well, some good news in the wake of people and corporations large and small not being our friends.
The New England Associated Press News Executives Association today announced the winners of their 2007 Web Contest - and the Telegraph won first place for Reader Engagement.
Translated that means the judges appreciated some of the initiatives we have [...]

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As long as they spell our name right

Posted by damon kiesow

Apparently someone out there (besides Facebook) does not like us.
Check out the review of the Telegraph on Yahoo local In brief the writer says the Telegraph is "not a news paper, more like a rumor mill."
I happen to know the reviewer in this case is the relative of an individual who was the subject [...]

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Facebook doesn’t like us

Posted by damon kiesow

Well, the Telegraph had a Facebook profile for about a week, and gained 100 friends, till we were cut off.
Here is the note I got from their support team today:
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Hi,
Facebook profiles are intended for use by a single individual.  Groups, clubs, and other types of organizations are not permitted to maintain an account.  I apologize [...]

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More mobile

Posted by damon kiesow

I probably mentioned this a few months back when we launched - but we updated the Telegraph mobile site this week - and it is almost out of 'beta.'
You can get to the site http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/mobile from any browser, but it is optimized for cell phones and other handheld devices.
Our breaking news feed is now published [...]

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Not that anyone asked

Posted by damon kiesow

With the move to a new ISP for our multimedia, blogs and forums, came the opportunity to dig into some of the inner workings of our web sites.
By inner workings I mean re-learning the proper format for a cron job to call PHP and Ruby scripts, digging through thousnads of PHP classes to actually get [...]

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Great info/interactive graphics

Posted by damon kiesow

Not many newspapers are good at info-graphics in print - meaning charts and maps and other elements that boil a news story down to a glance. When it comes to online interactive graphics - the New York Times.com is on a roll.
Their latest: Paths to the Top of the Home Run Chart is simply brilliant
There [...]

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Facebooking

Posted by damon kiesow

If you are a member of Facebook - the Telegraph is testing a new breaking news alert on that social networking site.
To participate - just make the telegraph (NashuaTelegraph) a friend - and make sure you can see our Status updates on your own home page.
Whenever we post a story to our breaking news blog [...]

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Structural deficiencies

Posted by damon kiesow

Following the bridge collapse tragedy in Minneapolis - newspapers around the country will be paying close attention to road issues in their own area.The Portland Oegonian stepped up with a nice mapping mash-up of problem bridges in their state - you can find it here:  “Structurally deficient” bridges in Oregon

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A quick update

Posted by damon kiesow

Just a quick note - in case you noticed our sites being unavailable at times this week - the vendor who has been hosting our Forums, Blogs and multimedia for about 18 months has apparently gone AWOL.
We managed to pull all of our data off their servers during a rare period that they were online [...]

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