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Excellent overview — good open government work from a surprising place. Speaking of surprises, I was tickled to learn how Brazil’s existing public disclosure laws were passed during the junta dictatorship era!
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Glad someone with $$$ is thinking ahead! “The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will be a Platinum sponsor at DrupalCON Boston March 3rd - 6th. What you may not know is what the Knight Foundation does and how they are connected to Drupal.”
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Just in case you’re taking life too seriously…
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Having trouble Skyping with your friends in India today? This may be why…
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Cool idea to connect print ads to mobile tech! Could be interesting for content, too! “Saves readers the trouble of typing a URL into their phone. Bring reader sto a specific page. Also ties into Google’s analytics tools.”
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Apparently, formal education and degrees are overrated.
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Great! Now only if they would crack down on splogs with scraped content, too…” Tasters”buy domains (normally misspellings of existing websites), place ads on them — often via Google AdSense — and return the ones that do not perform well.”
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“A tactical victory over rivals Google and Yahoo. The deal also covers other sites in the Wall Street Journal Digital Network — including Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com, and other online properties operated by WSJ owner Dow Jones and Co.”
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Mindshare Interaction’s Margaret Clerkin: “I have a big budget to put on phones. The tech is there. The carriers are very cautious about how they open up, they want to make sure they know consumer sensitivities. Also, mobile search is pathetic.”
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Per Lost Remote: “MSNBC.com acquired inspection data for 100,000 bridges through a FOIA request, and then mashed the data with Microsoft Virtual Earth, so you can see the condition and inspection schedule for bridges along your route. Cool.”
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“From start-ups to large corporations, everyone wants to wrap their arms around social media … but they do not want to spend the time it really does take to do community relations.” And it’s not just companies, but news orgs too.
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Yes, it’s time for mindset change: “The traditional path of a journalism career has clearly shifted. Today the reporter might launch a blog, a podcast or video reports as a one-person operation, handling editorial and business duties simultaneously.”
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Hey, I resemble that remark…
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“Wordpress team has released a new theme: Prologue, like a group Twitter. Allows contributors to post directly on the blog front page, displaying a stream of recent updates. Ideal format for a breaking news site. Reporters add latest details.”
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