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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Most of the people I'll blog about are technologists of some sort, or people who are using social media in ways that can be replicated in the news room.
This is not one of those people. This is one of the kings of technology journalism: Steven Levy.
My bias in this particular ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I've written quite a bit about Twitter in the newsroom today. It's an obvious addition that should appear near immediately -- and by that, I mean sometime in the last 15 months since it's been released.
The instant, mobile, social networking software is absolutely the best way to get live, up-to-the-second ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Larry Lessig, part of my people you should know series, decided not to run for Congress. Instead, he decided to start an organization meant to lobby Congress on behalf of the people.
There are many reasons to love Larry. This is one.
For our purposes, though, it illustrates a larger point about ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Just got this 911 map tracker IM'd to me.The one difference between this and the Twitter traffic is the issue of dynamics. The Twitter feed comes directly from the people on the ground; I'm assuming this map is, well, mapped, which it likely has to do since there is multimedia ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Four major newspaper chains and 26 newspaper companies have formed a massive, online advertising network.
The move comes as print revenues have flattened out, local advertising had flatlined for the last two years and keyword and search revenues become the engine for online ad growth. More and more, newspaper chains have ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
My friend Chris used to be a crime reporter, and whenever we'd swap stories about reporting, hers invariably began with hearing something on a scanner and running down the street ill-dressed for whatever situation she was in.There's a website, ScanMiamiValley, that aggregates the scanners from police and fire radio communications. ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I just received a Tweet from Jon Berndt, who tells me that St. Louis is using Twitter to update people about traffic issues.This is the perfect example of how the platform can be used to distribute up-to-the-minute news without going directly through the newspaper, yet still connected to the paper. ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
There are folks who hate on Twitter, the mobile, social network that connects people together in what can sometimes be a firehouse of useless babble.
But this platform is going to turn into one of the more important applications to hit the Web since...the Web. I don't know if it will ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Wow. The Read/Write Web is supposed to facilitate communication, but I've never been one to believe that most companies were going to embrace that notion in reality. The Web is messy and ugly and convoluted. In other words, it's everything that we are, smashed together in a virtual environment where ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
One of the topics we cover in my classes is game theory, particularly the Prisoner's Dilemma. If you don't want to click on the link, here is a basic overview:
Two people are separated and questioned, but offered the same deal. If you turn on the other person - you go ...
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