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Police scanners are unique devices that give you the ability obtain information about your local community at the same time police officers receive it. Having a police scanner built in to your computer is especially useful for reporters, as well as people who like to listen in as a hobby. It's easy to get your computer up and running as a police scanner. Read more: How Can I Use My PC As a Police Scanner? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6077604_can-use-pc-police-scanner_.html#ixzz1ZTT3rNSz

Life and Code What I learned about life from programming | newshackery Who are you and why are you writing this blog? Why are you learning to code? How are you learning to code? Where can I find your code? I want to code - how do I get started? 2011.09.29 10 Technical Skills for Local Publishers This was published for Block By Block 2011, the largest gathering of independent local publishers. I love you guys! Embedded media. And not just YouTube! Check out Scribd, which lets you embed documents, Soundcloud for audio, Timeglider for animated timelines, Storify for curating tweets and more from your community. Install your CMS from scratch. Don't just be someone who can add content to your site: be your site's resident Ninja. For popular content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal, you can find excellent video-based classes on Lynda.com. And it's cheap - $35/month for all you can eat training. Tweak your theme. So you have a new advertiser. Great! Oh, but you have to move things around to put up that ad. Darn. See Tweak your Wordpress Theme for starters. Google Analytics. You can't grow it until you can show it, and showing it starts with understanding your analytics. Good book with a scary title: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics. Check out the section on the "Ten Essential Google Analytics Reports." How to build a social media "listening post." When I ran a local site, I subscribed to 400 RSS feeds. Why? Because by the time I woke up, I generally had 3-5 stories just from that source alone. Start by learning how to use a desktop RSS aggregator like NetNewsWire for the Mac or FeedDemon for Windows - they're much more powerful and faster than Google Reader. Fusion tables/Google Maps Nothing scares the crap out of your local paper like a fancy interactive map that you toss off over a weekend. Fusion Tables tutorial. Hack Ye The Publick Da