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The Indianapolis Star is introducing "dashboards" for reporters. It includes links to the reporter's blog posts, stories and Twitter posts. - Erica Smith

You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data and visualization blogs out there. I'm a bit of a feed addict subscribing to just about anything with a chart or a mention of statistics on it (and naturally have to do some feed-cleaning every now and then). In a follow up to my short list last year, here are the data-ish blogs, some old and some new, that continue to post interesting stuff. - Erica Smith

Insights from industry leaders on the state of multimedia journalism, and guidelines based on their comments, information about conferences and awards and a list of resources - Erica Smith

The Austin American-Statesman created a swine flu website ... in a day. It. Is. Fantastic. Here's how (and why) they did it. - Erica Smith

How @coloneltribune became the voice of the Chicago Tribune and, in many ways, Chicago. - Erica Smith

We'll be building holograms next! - Erica Smith

Good advice as more conference-goers broadcast presentations via Twitter - Erica Smith

11% of adults are on Twitter/similar service - Erica Smith

New NCAA basketball site from the Washington Post - Erica Smith

drool-worthy - Erica Smith

There's a lot of truth here. - Erica Smith

How to get started and become good Twitter citizens: o Studying your potential audience o Establishing a publishing strategy o Growing your audience o Supplementing your existing editorial and social-media efforts - Erica Smith

With the Campaign Finance API, you can retrieve contribution and expenditure data based on United States Federal Election Commission filings. Campaign finance data is public and is therefore available from a variety of sources, but the developers of the Times API have distilled the data into aggregates that answer most campaign finance questions. Instead of poring over monthly filings or searching a disclosure database, you can use the Times Campaign Finance API to quickly retrieve totals for a particular candidate, see aggregates by ZIP code or state, or get details on a particular donor. - Erica Smith

(If you haven't joined Wired Journalists, you should.) - Erica Smith

All election news in one place - Erica Smith

This site was created by a group of Harvard students and a recent high school grad. - Erica Smith

Advice for media, too. - Erica Smith

This is the kind of niche site newspapers should -- and could -- be putting together. - Erica Smith

"Now where can I get $899?" ...... From your buyout, of course! ;) - Kevin Hessel

I don't think I've been here long enough for that. 1.5 years = 1 month's rent probably? Stop trying to get me fired! - Erica Smith

That's me! - Erica Smith

Hey, that's me! - Erica Smith

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Cousin Will! Very much looking forward to this movie - Erica Smith

STL coming in as No. 5 for wrath! Love the map. - Erica Smith

New favorite blog! - Erica Smith

Dogs with blogs! I asked the cat ... she's not interested. - Erica Smith

"Does murdering a newspaper break any laws?" - Erica Smith

Chicago Tribune vs. Chicago Sun-Times -- is this really a "newspaper war" or do they just like to think it is? - Erica Smith

Yes! Someone gets it! Or at least recognizes that the system must change! - Erica Smith

I think I already said something about this on my blog, too - Erica Smith