Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2008-06-05

• Northern Virginia Operational Area | Dominion Power
  Map of power outages in Northern Virginia.
  (tags: power virginia home maps)
• Death March | Portfolio.com
  “Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is hoping to wrest control of paid death notices from the newspaper industry, just as he did with employment postings.”
  (tags: newspapers obituary business toread via:poynter)
• Image Replacement + Google | mezzoblue
  “What does Google think of CSS image replacement, anyway? But the part that surprised me is that he actually had an answer: Google’s okay with it, you won’t be penalized for using image replacement properly.”
  (tags: css webdesign seo google toread)
• The Third Rail | Washington City Paper
  “One man’s quest to take the train to new York without ever boarding Amtrak.”
  (tags: transportation publictransit travel washingtondc nyc toread)
• Murky Boundaries | American Journalism Review
  “What are the guidelines for the personal blogs of journalists who work for mainstream news organizations?”
  (tags: blogs journalism)