About Scot Hacker
Scot Hacker is the webmaster for the Knight Digital Media Center and is also involved with web operations for the Graduate School of Journalism. He provides technical assistance in multimedia training courses, runs the webcast operation, and teaches a class in web development. Hacker is the author of O'Reilly's ["MP3: The Definitive Guide" (http://bit.ly/yfNOW), Peachpit's "The BeOS Bible" (http://bit.ly/1031L2), and dozens of articles for print- and web-based technology publications including PC Magazine, Byte.com, Windows Sources, MacWorld, and ZDNet, as well as television appearances and trade show gigs.
On the side, Scot runs a web hosting company for independent journalists and artists.
Writing
Content on this site written by Scot Hacker (includes contributory writing):
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Tutorials
- Search Engine Optimization — Basics
Published Sep 20, 2009
- Getting Started with SEOSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of making the content you publish appear near the top of the Search Engine Result Page (SERP). Your SEO skills ...
- FTP Made Simple
Published Jun 9, 2009
- Once you've created a web site, you'll need to upload it to a public web server, where the rest of the world can enjoy it. If you're not working with ...
- Canon Rebel Camera
Published Mar 19, 2009
- The Canon Rebel family of cameras is the first level of SLRs the company makes. They generally run between $600 to $1,000 depending on the kit options and accessories. The ...
- CSS 101
Published Feb 6, 2009
- HTML is for setting the logical markup of documents on the web, but has nothing to do with how those documents appear - that's a job for Cascading Style Sheets, ...
- Embedding Map Mashups
Published Jan 29, 2009
- Now that you've learned how to create map mashups, adding them to your site should be a simple matter of copy-and-paste, right? Not so fast - there are a number ...
- Photoshop
Published Nov 13, 2008
- Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for working with digital images of any kind. This tutorial will take you through the entry-level steps of using the program to open, crop, ...
- Using WordPress
Published Jun 23, 2008
- New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the WordPress 2.5 publishing platform. Learn how to post and mange your content, as well ...
- Using Free Web Designs
Published May 21, 2008
- Multimedia web sites often take the form of mini sites that don't utilize your publication's design templates. Coming up with fresh, professional-looking web designs for multimedia projects can be tedious ...
- Embedding Multimedia
Published May 16, 2007
- This is where your skills come together - Web page creation skills, interview skills, audio and video editing skills, and storytelling skills all converge at this point. Inserting media into ...
- Dreamweaver
Published May 16, 2007
- Dreamweaver is a Web page design program that lets you type text and add media elements directly into a page, much as you would with a word processing program like ...
- HTML 101
Published May 16, 2007
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is simple document markup languaged used for creating Web pages and other information viewable in a Web browser. This tutorial is a crash course in basic ...
- Digital Still Cameras
Published May 16, 2007
- There are two basic kinds of digital cameras: Digital SLR (single lens reflex) and non-SLR. Digital SLRs are generally more expensive and more accurate than non-SLR cameras, and include more ...
- Pro Tools
Published May 16, 2007
- ProTools is a professional audio engineering software program made by Digidesign. Although it's used by top-notch pros in the radio industry, ProTools has a fairly easy learning curve, making it ...
- Video on the Web
Published May 16, 2007
- Once you've finished editing your video (or audio), you'll need to greatly reduce its filesize so that it can be transferred over the Web effectively. Compressing audio and video can ...
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Blog Posts
- KDMC Wins DataSF Hack-a-Thon
- KDMC was recently invited to participate in the California Data Camp and DataSF App Contest hosted by California Watch and spot.us. The unconference featured open discussions related to making use ...
- KDMC Adds Presentations Index
- KDMC has been running multimedia and internet technology training workshops for years now, with each workshop consisting of many individual presentations. In fact, there are now more than 358 separate ...
- KDMC Launches Bloggers' Directory
- The Knight Digital Media Center is pleased to announce the launch of a sister site, the Bay News Network. BNN is a directory of Bay Area blogs and news sites ...
- Blogging with the Experts
- The typical blog post involves an author holding forth, followed by responses to that post from the public. But UC Berkeley's Office of Public Affairs turned this model on its ...
- Bee Story on 45s Generates Big Traffic
- Knight Fellow Manny Cristomo of the Sacramento Bee produced an excellent video piece about a collection of 45 RPM records that found its way back to the original owner's son, ...
- June Multimedia Webcasts
- Another week of multimedia workshops has passed, and we've beeen webcasting featured panelists and speakers live.  Video archives are now online.
- Twitter Dividends
- An interesting question came up amongst alumni of our training programs recently: Are journalistic organizations seeing an up-tick in traffic to their sites as a result of regular Twitter usage? ...
- Webcasting with Django
- The KDMC webcast system handles week-long events which consist of multiple presentations, which in turn may or may not include a webcast. Meanwhile, webcasts have to be handled both live ...
- May 2009 Workshop Webcasts
- The May 2009 Multimedia workshop is complete, and featured an excellent collection of live public speakers, including:From Here to There: Cultivating the Seeds of Transformation Speakers: Laura Varon Brown, Craig ...
- P.I. Reed School of Journalism
- Fellow John Temple, who is associate dean of P.I. Reed School of Journalism implemented a program whereby students of the school will produce multimedia projects for local papers, and in ...
- Shreveport Times Mashup
- Fellow Scott Anderson, video and technology editor for The Times in Shreveport, Louisiana shares with us a Google Map he produced offering locations of hurricane shelters to the public and ...
- Detroit Free Press Video
- Fellow Eric Seals, photographer and multimedia producer for the Detroit Free Press produced this fantastic video on local coach Courtney Hawkins of Flint (MI) Beecher High School.
- The Richmond Times-Dispatch Videos
- Fellow Penelope Carrington, multimedia reporter for the The Richmond Times-Dispatch, shared with us some videos she produced for her paper during the recent inauguration ceremonies. Check out her videos  (She ...
- March 2009 Workshop Projects
- It's amazing what a group of determined journalists can create in one week of intensive multimedia training. Multimedia projects created by our March 2009 fellows are now available for public ...
- March 2009 Workshop Webcasts
- Our March 22-27 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists has just wrapped up.  If you weren't able to attend, we've posted most of our noon and evening speakers as live webcasts. ...
- Announcing the KDMC Newsletter
- Want to stay abreast of KDMC news, events, announcements and useful links? We've launched a brand new newsletter, which we'll be sending out monthly. Newsletter subscriptions are open to the ...
- February Webcasts Now Available
- We've just finished up the February 2009 Technology Tools Training Workshop, which included a lineup of excellent panels and talks by industry experts. In case you weren't able to join ...
- Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
- HTML is for setting the logical markup of documents on the web, but has nothing to do with how those documents appear - that's a job for Cascading Style Sheets, ...
- GateHouse vs. The New York Times
- In a case with far-reaching implications for the widespread practice of automated aggregation of headlines and ledes via RSS, GateHouse Media has, for the most part, won its case against ...
- January 2009 Lecture Series Webcasts
- Our January 11-16 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way For those not able to attend, we've been presenting most of our noon and evening speakers as live webcasts. ...
- December 2008 Lecture Series Webcasts
- Our Dec. 16-19 Internet Technology Training Workshop for journalists has come and gone. If you were not able to attend, or you were here but would like a refresher course ...
- Webcast Listings Updated
- We've rebuilt our webcast and presentation system from scratch, providing more detailed information for both archived and future webcasts, and gathering webcast/workshop information together on combined pages. We're now displaying ...
- HTML 101
- Time to start learning HTML? We've re-written our HTML 101 tutorial from scratch, with just enough code to get you started on the road to self-sufficiency.
- Is Twitter Killing Blogs?
- It's a common refrain in the Twitterverse: "My blog is dying!" When users can cut to the 140-character chase so quickly and so easily, they may start to wonder whether ...
- Online Participation Rates Are Up
- The ratio of "lurkers" to "participators" in online forums and social networks is changing over time. According to data recently gathered by Forrester Research, 21% of adults online consider themselves ...
- Giving Away the Farm
- Hosting large amounts of video used to be expensive, in terms of bandwidth and disk space. Compressing and hosting video is tricky business. But YouTube solves all of that for ...
- May Projects, Webcast Archives
- Our May workshop was a great success, with a rousing round of speakers and an impressive collection of final projects by the fellows. Our live webcasts are now available as ...
- Working With Free Web Designs
- Creating professional-looking designs for multimedia sites can be tedious and time-consuming. But there are thousands of free web templates out there, yours for the download. Our new Free Web Designs ...
- May 2008 Lecture Series Webcasts
- The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the Knight Digital Media Center. Industry experts speak throughout the week on ...
- Tutorials Available in PDF Format
- We've added a new feature to our multimedia and digital media tutorials -- Save as PDF. While we've always offered a "Print" view from our tutorials, from which Mac users ...
- Design Notes from the NY Times
- The NY Times has posted an interesting interview with Design Director Khoi Vinh, who discusses some of the more obscure/hidden aspects of the Gray Lady's online presence. One of the ...
- First Tech Training Workshop a Success
- The Knight Digital Media Center's first-ever Tech Training for Editors workshop has come and gone. Judging by comments and reviews by the participants, our first effort at teaching map mashups, ...
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Forum Posts
- Truly Dynamic Flash
- Nalzayed - The answer to that question is completely dependent on your environment. You didn't mention what CMS you're using, whether you're using PHP or Python or some other language, whether it's on a Unix or Windows server... Please provide more information.
- Flash vs. HTML Survey
- Hills - SoundSlides exports an HTML mini-site that embeds a small .swf element - a whole hierarchy of files and folders, images and audio files, etc. In other words, a SoundSlides show is an example of an HTML mini-site and can provoke the same hassles of getting it into a ...
