Web Development Live

Digg has always featured local news stories submitted by its users, but they haven’t been organized around location. At a town hall event in Denver, Digg’s founders hinted at new features on the way. now:

One question suggested “geotagging” for stories to group them into local news stories, something that could make the site legitimately compete with sites like Outside.in and city blog networks like Gothamist. “Yes,” (Kevin) Rose said. “We’ve thought about this as well and it would be really cool if we could start to group different events around you.” (Jay) Adelson added that Digg has “a few projects on the way… think 2009, realistically, for some of this stuff.”

Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe was standing close to Hillary Clinton last night during Obama’s nomination, and he streamed Comet Technologies.

When popular sports columnist Jay Mariotti from the Chicago Sun-Times this week, he explained his decision this way: sports journalism has become “entirely a website business.” He had just returned from Beijing, where he said most of the journalists there were reporting for the web. So now Mariotti is looking to land an online job.

Mariotti’s insight shouldn’t be limited to just the newspaper world. For coverage of pro teams, the web rules, and local TV plays a small and declining role. ESPN.com, Yahoo Sports, local newspaper sites and now the team websites themselves are the primary destinations for pro sports news. And competition is growing in college and high school sports, too. As a result, directly or indirectly, local TV has been shifting its coverage resources away from sports over the years. And unfortunately, with the exception of high school sports, this coverage shift is slowly putting local TV out of the game for sports coverage, both on TV and the web.

Lost Remote Emeritus for Eternity, Steve Safran, is trying a little experiment. Along with his friend, animator and designer Greg Pair, they’ve launched a into the news T-shirt business a few months ago. The funny thing is, I think this will sell. Stay tuned…

As you may have seen mentioned elsewhere, Mozilla Labs , their new natural language command tool for Firefox. They have big plans for it, but even now the limited functionality to invoke certain commands is extremely impressive. When you find yourself trying to call it up in unrelated applications you realise just how useful it is destined to become in the future.

Digital Web is happy to welcome Ringling College of Art + Design’s . It is a good article with excellent examples analyzing the designs by the best-of-the-best. Anyone looking to add thoughtful critique to their designing (who isn’t?) will benefit from Kimberly’s suggestions.