Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I've been saying for months that the end of the banner has already happened, but folks in the newspaper industry -- at least the ones I've spoken with -- tell me I'm crazy.
Or they look at me like I'm crazy before walking away.
The reason I believe this: we ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I love the Web. I just found out about bitchmeme, a great term to describe what happens on the weekends when there isn't much news happening. Bloggers (or as we called them at Technology Review, the nutters) come out in force to discuss issues that bother them.
Or in this case, ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Well, I took a day off to attend the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (loss) Celebration. Now we're back to news about journalism. A VC firm has funded a news aggregation service for journalists. The company, Publish2, is the latest in a series of human-search oriented websites that remove technology ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
This is a really cool little aggregator. It's...well...live news cameras from around the country.
Here's how I found this. Two folks Twittered it earlier this evening. I had my Tweetr3 desktop application fired up. The Obama speech (HOUSTON 1) was being streamed, and I can only imagine that it's live.
I had ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The great thing about Twitter: I find so many cool applications by stalking people.
NewsNozzl is an aggregator of news from the best social media sites. People then vote on the best stories and the headlines are displayed accordingly. This is such a great way to display information, particularly in a ...
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