links for 2008-02-02

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[Apple – Find Out How – Movies](http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/)

Apple go a bit bonkers with movie tutorials. Lots of stuff here for those of you struggling with Imovie 8

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[Why re-invent the CMS wheel?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos](http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/01/31/why_reinvent_the_cms_wheel.php)

News organisations should not be seduced by the flashy CMS vendors at trade shows and instead investigate the disruptive innovation possible through open-source development. What are your journalists doing 18 clicks away from publishing?

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[Why The Travel Channel Academy is Unique « Rosenblumtv](http://rosenblumtv.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/why-the-travel-channel-academy-is-unique/)

Thus proving my theory that some VJ’s are just frustrated indies trying to get ideas on TV. I thought the whole point was that this new way of working was meant to eschew the TV paradigm and use the net to subvert the old business models. Oh well.

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[In memory of chicagocrime.org | Holovaty.com](http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/01/31/0102)

“It’s with mixed feelings that I announce the end of one of my projects, chicagocrime.org. This site has been serving Chicago residents since May 2005. I hope you’ll indulge me in a brief retrospective.”

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[Create a breaking news site in minutes with WordPress « Reportr.net](http://reportr.net/2008/01/30/create-a-breaking-news-site-in-minutes-with-wordpress/)

Alf has some great ideas of what you could do with this new wordpress prologue theme “A user could just read the entries related to one aspect of a news story, say posts about police statements, or eyewitness accounts.”

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[Google Analytics Blog: Urchin Software Beta Now Public](http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/02/urchin-software-beta-now-public.html)

Urchin Software from Google is a web analytics product similar in scope to Google Analytics, except you install and manage the software on your own servers.

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links for 2008-02-02

Peter Horrocks: BBC mulimedia chief gets vlogged

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![Vlog butterfly](https://i2.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/vlog.jpg?w=525)](http://www.viewmagazine.tv/...

Video training: Avoid the training rollercoaster

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)![the training rollercoaster](https://i1.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/curve.jpg?w=525) Stress and time...