October 2010
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September 2010
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Microsoft employees hold funeral parade for... →
Celebrating Windows Phone 7’s “Release to Manufacturing” status, Microsoft employees held a morbid funeral parade for the iPhone and Blackberry.
The parade through the company’s Redmond campus, first reported by NeoWin, included hearses, oversized iPhone and Blackberry coffins, and various Halloween-like costumes.
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Are Cameras the New Guns? →
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.
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If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses →
August 2010
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New: Featured Photo
The Colby Echo tries hard to be Colby’s #1 source for visual content. Our photo editors are always running about and taking pictures for the paper and our website, and unfortunately some of those pictures never make it into our print edition. This is why we’ve created a new web department: Featured Photo.
Every so often, a photo editor will upload a never-before-seen photo to...
What's Under TheColbyEcho.com?
This post is for those of you who’d like to know a little more about what our site runs on. TheColbyEcho.com is built on top of a custom Content Management System made from scratch in object oriented PHP by the Echo Tech Team. The Echo CMS is comprised of four layers.
Display - The Display layer is the outward-facing code in the site. When you view our source, all of what you see is...
July 2010
4 posts
New: Viewbox
Throughout the past two years at the Echo, we’ve been working hard to deliver you stunning visual content. We’ve re-vamped our photo department and created an entirely new video department in order to expand our coverage into the visual realm.
While making the new Colby Echo site, we wanted a means through which we could showcase all the beautiful visual content we were making. We...
New: Weather
This is the first in a series of posts introducing the all-brand-new Colby Echo site’s features. If you have any questions, you can ask them here.
We want students to use TheColbyEcho.com as their go-to place for everything Colby. And because we are fortunate enough to go to school in Maine where weather is such a wonderful part of everyday life, we decided it would be super-helpful to...
Known Issues
This is a list of things we know are malfunctioning with the Echo site. If you know of a bug not on this list, we would love it if you told us.
Unrecognized Characters
In earlier articles, quotes and dashes will display as unrecognized characters, such as this “�”. This was a problem that happened when we merged the old Colby Echo article database with the new site. We are...
In Online Journalism, Burnout Starts Younger →
Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw readers their way.
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