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Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Roberto R — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:44:47 -0000

This is brilliant Jeff! I haven't heard that we could customize the appearance of Storify. Will try this in our website. Thanks.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

alexs@upfromnothing.com — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:02:30 -0000

Jeff thanks for the prompt reply. The edits look plain enough to probably have survived the updates. I'll give it a shot tommorow and will let you as well as any further readers know.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:22:24 -0000

I think the Storify code has gone through several iterations since I first wrote this in 2011. So these changes may not still work the same way. But if you inspect the current DOM structure of the Storify embed you can probably identify new element IDs and classes to target with CSS.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

alexs@upfromnothing.com — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:32:28 -0000

I want to say thanks for taking the time to write this article. I do have one question. Are these even still valid adjustments? I noticed that Spotify was bought by Livefyre and I am curious as to what functionality was lost as a result. I will definitely give these CSS codes a shot, but have to admit that I am a bit incredulous as to whether they still work or not. In case anyone is still actively following this page. I will also make sure to post an update as to whether these codes are still useful.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Nick Kellet — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:34:48 -0000

Thanks Jeff. Your post stirred a debate with my co-founder @shyamster and I over at @listly on how we should implement/support customization Your approach with @storify rocks.

Re: My career v3.0: Writing and teaching mobile, social media for Poynter

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:51:42 -0000

Thanks, Damon, though technically it is I who am following YOUR coverage. Good luck in Boston.

Re: My career v3.0: Writing and teaching mobile, social media for Poynter

greglinch — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:44:22 -0000

Congrats!

Re: My career v3.0: Writing and teaching mobile, social media for Poynter

dkiesow — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:40:09 -0000

Jeff -

Congratulations - I am looking forward to following your coverage.

Damon

Re: The TBD community shows what it’s about

mayerjoy — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:11:59 -0000

Thanks for putting this together on such a crazy day, Jeff. You guys have a lot of support.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

virtualDavis — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:18:18 -0000

Bravo, Jeff, this is nothing short of a giant step for blogger-journalist-curator-kind! The Storify crew are building a powerful and overdue tool for curating the social web, and you've taken a critical step towards making it more design friendly. Perhaps Xavier and Burt are following your posts stream? And perhaps they'll integrate a css tuner on their end soon? Cheers!

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:14:14 -0000

Thanks Chrys, good point. My first move was to hide the header entirely, so I didn't focus much on modifications within it. But I'm sure there's a lot you can do there.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Chrys — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:19:14 -0000

very good solution :-)
in the header, there are many CSS code you can also customize : border style (#fff)... padding (to 0)...
div.sfywdgt_image... and so on !

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:55:37 -0000

That's true, but my assumption is in most cases your blog or news site already has sharing tools on the page where you are embedding the Storify module.

Re: How to customize the appearance of Storify on your site

Ryan Kellett — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:36:37 -0000

Well done, Jeff. Will try this the next time I want to try a Storify embed. My only concern is that by pulling the header you miss out of the share functionality that links the widget and the actual storify page. I guess it's not hard to re-code that info into the page though... thanks!

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

Amy S — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:30:01 -0000

People expect emails and electronic communications NOT posted to public sites to be private and remain private. Intercepting US mail is a serious offense and many of us feel likewise about the theft of private communications. I think Amazon booting Wiki is exactly like a landlord booting tenant who is engaged in illegal activity. And if publicizing stolen documents of any kind is not currently illegal, it will and should be soon. In the information age, information is a currency that deserves protection.

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

Jeff Sonderman — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:57:28 -0000

Lamar, whether an act of speech is irresponsible is a subjective judgment. I have not read all of the cables, of course, but I'm not aware of any specific thing released that was patently irresponsible (read: dangerous). I have seen things that were embarrassing, and I have seen criticisms that the general act of the leak is disruptive to the government, but in my mind none of those things is extreme enough to justify censorship of it.

The larger point is, who makes that decision? I am not comfortable with one U.S. senator and a few corporations arbitrarily deciding what speech they feel is irresponsible and acting to suppress it. There ought be some formal due legal process, with burdens of proof and rights of representation and appeal, conducted in open court.

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

Jeff Sonderman — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:50:04 -0000

"Stolen property" at a pawn shop is a poor metaphor for leaked copies of documents. When jewelry is stolen, the concern is that the owner is deprived of possessing it. In this case, the State Department still has the cables. The only issue is that now many other people also have copies of them.

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

Spamfilter — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:36:43 -0000

Nice job at trying to justify your unjustifiable ideology with your footnote. You KNOW there was a valid reason for those corporations doing what they did. Wikileaks violated their terms of service! The material was STOLEN! No. Wikileaks didn't still it, but it is stolen information. Should pawn stores be allowed to have stolen material as well since they didn't steal it?

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

Lamar Morgan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:30:21 -0000

Isn't the WikiLeaks ordeal somewhat similar to the yelling of fire in a crowded theater? Yes, free speech is important. As an American, I will never back down from that position. But, free speech and irresponsible speech are not synomonous terms. When people abuse their freedom they tend to lose it. Maybe that is a fine line everyone needs to walk and not cross? WikiLeaks cross that line and lost.

Re: Silencing WikiLeaks

howardowens — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:16:53 -0000

It would also be helpful if anit-trust laws were enforced as originally intended.

Re: Video: Watch the sessions from ONA 2010

Wendell Cochran — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:06:25 -0000

Thanks, Jeff. This is really helpful

Re: What is journalism school for?

Naomi — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:38:45 -0000

Whoops, that's ROB O'Regan :)

Re: What is journalism school for?

Naomi — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:37:41 -0000

Editor Ron O'Regan's blog post about his daughter starting j-school -- against his advice -- offers some additional insight for potential students: http://emediavitals.com/blo...

Re: Malcolm Gladwell’s errors on social media activism

andrew_o — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:48 -0000

I think #3 above calls into question whether Gladwell's argument even pertains to Iran, given that SMS is considered of equal or greater importance. Does SMS signify a weak tie or a strong one?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/w...

Annabelle Sreberny, professor in global media and communications at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, agrees. "Twitter was massively overrated. But spaces like YouTube and Facebook have been very important for sharing information."

But Sreberny, who is organising a conference next week on the role of non-conventional media in Iran, adds: "I wouldn't argue that social media really mobilised Iranians themselves – the protest were best organised using SMS."

Point being, Iran might not be the exemplar of a social media revolution Gladwell takes it to be.

Re: Malcolm Gladwell’s errors on social media activism

Steve Buttry — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:02:11 -0000

Excellent points, Jeff, and here's one more: Malcolm Gladwell has tweeted 10 times, so I think it's safe to say he doesn't really understand Twitter relationships.