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Terrible title, but this is actually a pretty good MSM article about poly.
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“American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting this week. Astronomer Pamela Sue Gay “We have had as many or more people viewing our sessions online” as in person. 30 people attended for her roundtable discussion but twice as many watched online.”
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Great place to track the emerging Edupunk meme: “Ideology: educators and education strategies with a do it yourself (DIY) spirit. Includes most instructional uses of blogs, wikis, mashups, and podcasting among other uses of emerging technologies.”
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Journo David Herrold used Yahoo Pipes to create a tool for cleaning annoying posts (BrightKite and Utterz) from your Twitter feed. It creates a new feed — which you can view in your feed reader. Doesn’t work with interface appls like Twirl, though.
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“Media analysts agreed LoudounExtra.com doesn’t do enough to engage the community. Hyperlocal sites range from the fully service-oriented (with databases, calendars and news) to repositories for blogs, commentary, photos and video from site visitors.”
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Consider Amazon’s Kindle portable e-reader as a news distribution channel. “I am reading both the Denver Post and Time Magazine on my Kindle now, and it’s nice to be able to catch up on reading like that when I have a few minutes just about anyplace”.
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Tutorial on using Twitter’s hastags, a way to add context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post.
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Interesting video discussion touching on the homophily theme (birds of a feather flock together) I’ve discussed earlier.
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“We’ve developed special reports: one-time collections of recent geographic news that doesn’t fit anywhere else on Everyblock. The first EveryBlock special report is Operation Crooked Code, regarding a federal probe into muni corruption in Chicago”
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I’m trying to figure out how to use Friendfeed efficiently. Here’s some guidance. Thanks, Beth!
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David Cohn of the new Knight news Challenge project Spot.us, which is trying crowdfunding for investigative reporting in the Bay Areas, is seeking to hire Bay Area reporters. Watch his video.
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“This kind of sophistry was rammed down the throats of newsrooms around the country, backed by questionable research. As a news manager and editor, I sat in countless focus groups where regular readers reacted with disdain to these schemes.”
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