In the media business, we’re not afraid to tackle the tough issues facing America today. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the news.

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5 months of work come together for me today.

Starting at 9AM this morning, we’ll migrate http://www.wspa.com from ExpressionEngine over to an in-house built, Django-based CMS called Duke.

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Witness the madness that is Josh.

I’m only putting this photo up because he told me not to.

So there.

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I have a fun weekend planned. NewsML Feed Format Specification and HTTP Gateway Specification reviews. Awesome.

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Someone’s not happy.

While looking through a co-worker’s files this morning for a project update, I found this:

Yes. Yes they do. And now that we’re getting the right people on the bus, maybe we won’t have to rely on the wrong people as often as we did in the past. (Hats off to new hires David Park and Denise Sarkees.)

In other news, MEG is up 4.5% today on the stock market. Yay!

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Let the professionals do their jobs.

I’m helping someone clean up a few pages on their web site this weekend. One of the pages I was asked to review was the “rates” page.

On the site, it looks atrocious.

I just downloaded the page and opened it a text editor. Now I know why it looks so bad.

<p><b>Rates</b></p>
        <p><div align=“center”><strong><strong><u><blink><font size=”+4”>March Madness</font></strong></u></blink></strong></div>
<p><div align=“center”><strong><font size=”+4”>$29 before 12pm</font></strong></div>
<p><div align=“center”><strong><font size=”+3”>$20 after 12pm</font></strong></div>
<p><div align=“center”><strong><font size=”+4”>Carts permitted 90</font></strong></div>
<p><font size=”+1”><div align=“center”>Rates good through March 31, 2009</div></font>
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Yes, that’s a blink tag you see in there.

[shakes head]

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More scientific organizations are using Twitter as a means of information dissemination.

It wasn’t too long ago that many faithfully followed the last tweets of the Mars Phoenix mission. It’s final note before Phoenix mission ops stepped in to let us know that Phoenix was no longer communicating with Earth and the mission had ended was 01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000

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I stumbled across another science-based use of Twitter this morning, this time from the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

The Redoubt volcano has shown recent signs increasing periods of volcanic tremors. Most vulcanologists agree that the likelihood of an eruption is high. Hourly updates are provided on the volcano’s condition via Twitter.

Do you know of any other scientific-based uses of Twitter? I’d like to follow them as well. If you know of any, please drop me a line in the comments below. Thanks.

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