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The Sustainability Question

Students living in the most energy efficient buildings produce the most greenhouse gas emissions, the interim director of the Office for Campus Sustainability said Wednesday. «Open»

Interactive Maps Shows Legislative Candidates in May’s Primary

The primary fight for Arkansas Legislative seats is largely divided with Republicans mostly duking it out for seats in the northwest corner of the state and Democrats competing for seats in the south and east. All of the state’s 135 … «Open»

Sommelier drawing

This past Saturday WSJ included a nice article about sommeliers by Lettie Teague. The art complimenting the article was designed by the talented Edel Rodriguez. I thought I needed to create my own version for Fayetteville Sommelier Aleks Berry, who … «Open»

Scroll-balla avec Webkitten

Yes, yes. I’ve relaunched the look of my site again. Not sure why; don’t ask. I just needed it to help inspire me to blog more (minimalist new style, maybe?). One thing that I wanted to learn/experiment with were those … «Open»

To minor or not to minor

That, indeed, is a question that’ll probably affect my financial future. I just can’t tell if it’ll be positive or negative. When I re-enrolled full-time at the UA this fall I was missing one important trinket from my past enrollment … «Open»

Design of a great newspaper homepage

In my job, that must be the oddest phrase I deal with daily. Newspaper Homepage. Technically a newspaper isn’t a website and therefore has no homepage. So we focus on it being a digital representation of a (or several) newspaper(s) … «Open»

New bill to protect Arkansas’ TV and web reporters

The Arkansas Senate has passed a bill that would extend the media shield law currently protecting newspaper, radio and periodical reporters. If the bill becomes law it would protect television and website reporters from exposing their sources to a grand … «Open»

Timely News Focus: Is it short-term or long-term?

Really great article from James Fallows over at The Atlantic: Everyone from President Obama to Ted Koppel is bemoaning a decline in journalistic substance, seriousness, and sense of proportion. But the author, a longtime advocate of these values, takes a … «Open»

What Excel’s button icons mean to me

 

Basic SEO; how it works with journalism sites

I recently came across a problem while editing our template pages on WholeHogSports. The site had absolutely missed the boat for a decent bit of search engine optimization. SEO is basically a quick and easy way to organize your information … «Open»