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“Yesterday’s tragedy makes it clear the U.S. has been squandering its infrastructure legacy by turning a reckless blind eye to critical upgrades, says a natl security expert, former Coast Guard officer and Sr. fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”
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“Applications can retrieve biz review and rating info by geographic region/location, pull up biz info based on a phone number, etc. There are no commercial boundaries on the APIs – data can be used without charge within their terms of use.”
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“Apple has filed a patent to cover a Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary software application, which looks to be implemented in the back of iPods, the iPhone, the Mac ( using the touch pad ), mice, and other future devices”
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“Radio Lab podcast is what you’d get if you put Freakonomics, Malcolm Gladwell, and This American Life in a blender.”
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“Quite a few comments on the New York Times website were from Minnesotans. “It has been surreal to view images of a place one block away from where I live,” wrote one. “My house is about seven blocks from the bridge that collapsed,” reported another.”
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“Critics of Colorado Public Radio recently launched a blog about CPR, Frances Koncilja, a former CPR board member who resigned this spring and publicly complained about a lack of transparency and inclusion at CPR, contributes to the blog.”
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“Textbookflix has created a similar system for students to rent text books in the same way that you rent movies from Netflix. Right now, about a handful of schools are participating”
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mobile web browsers: “Many new cell phone browsers to ease surfing on the Web are being developed, and some wireless carriers have begun opening up Internet use for customers.”
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“Sites in the program paste “boxes” on their sites that combine MSNBC.com content with advertising from one of two sources: Today Show or politics. Publishers get a cut of the respective ad revenue, and MSNBC gets incremental revenue and traffic.”
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“CompanyLoop is a new site that lets businesses create groups for coworkers to connect online. This operates somewhat like a white label version of LinkedIn, limiting functionality to only those included in the company.”
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“Create your own dynamic ad units, place them in your feed ad network, and let it roll. Sends your ad content out to others that are part of Feedburner’s network and lets you spread your wings even further online. Somewhat of an AdWords alternative.”
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“Google is anxious to dominate the mobile industry on a number of levels, acting independently of any particular mobile carrier. Creating its own handset with mobile browsing functionality would put other companies at the mercy of Google”
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“70% of Canadian households subscribed to the Internet in 2006, which is 6% more than in 2005. The percentage of Canadian households with high speed Internet subscriptions also continued to increase, from 51% in 2005 to 60% in 2006.”
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“BIG events in the life of a community: a shift to money-making; acquisition; leadership squabbles; the community leader shifts their attention. The options are that the community will die, or that it will change in response to the stimuli.”
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Newstrust: “1. Journalists will need to get used to this public grading. 2. I suspect that NewsTrust will turn into a useful hiring tool. 3. If NewsTrust does affect individual careers, I can envision some journalists trying to game the system.”
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From Slashdot’s Robin Miller: “I assure you that a forum you build (or rebuild) in accordance with my rules will be more popular, easier to manage, and more profitable than one that doesn’t follow them.”
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“users of user-generated content will hit 101 million by 2011, up from the 2006 estimate of 69 million, while the “generators” lag at 91 million.”
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From my own experience: Turning an embarrassing coincidence into a teachable moment for public discussion
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