Archive for the firefox Tag

How I hacked my journalism workflow (#jcarn)

I’ve been meaning to write a post for some time breaking down all the habits and hacks I’ve acquired over the years – so this month’s Carnival of Journalism question on ‘Hacking your journalism workflow’ gave me the perfect nudge. Picking those habits apart is akin to an act of archaeology. What might on the surface look very complicated is simply
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The services of the ‘semantic web’

Many of the services that are being developed as part of the ‘semantic web’ are necessarily works in progress, but they all contribute to extending the success of this burgeoning area of technology. There are plenty more popping up all the time, but for the purposes of this post I have loosely grouped some prominent sites into specialities – social
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Something for the Weekend #4: scraping the web with iMacro

This week’s Something for the Weekend is a little different, as it’s a tool for newsgathering rather than publishing. But what a tool. iMacro is a plugin for Firefox, with paid versions for Internet Explorer or standalone use. There’s a lot of corporate/technical jargon on the website (“create solutions for web automation”), because, like some of the best web tools
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