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Cool, UC Berkeley has a stargazing group and events! I can get my local space fix
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"Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do. The study, which examined the performance of House members between 1984 and 2004, found that women delivered roughly 9 percent more discretionary spending for their districts than men."
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"My paper looks at new para-journalism forms such as micro-blogging as “awareness systems”. For this I have drawn from literature on new communications technologies in computer science to suggest that these broad, asynchronous, lightweight and always-on systems are enabling citizens to maintain a mental model of news and events around them, giving rise to awareness systems that paper describes as ambient journalism. I focused on Twitter as it has become one of the most popular platforms for micro-blogging."
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Academic who's taking a close look at the L3C (low-profit LLC) biz models for newspapers: James T. Hamilton directs the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
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"TechCrunch 50 startup CitySourced is launching an a slew of smartphone applications that let you file an issue to your city from your phone, aiming to crowdsource this information for cities. The app on your Blackberry, Android or iPhone lets you take a picture of the infraction. The app detects your location via GPS and once the image is loaded and approved, you are brought to the reporting screen. You can then identify what the problem is, add comments, and Tweet the problem out from your Twitter account.Once you press “file”, the report is captured, bundled and automatically transferred to the government agency that is responsible for the infraction."
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No kidding. I love this. Brings out the origami junkie in me
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10/15 unconference by ReadWriteWeb at the Computer History Museum, Mtn View, CA. A selection of the topics we expect to see discussed include:
* The potential and pitfalls of real-time for social networking, media, financial services, humanitarian work and political advocacy.
* How will ubiquitous real-time information delivery change the web in the future? What will it make possible? How will it change user expectations?
* How can small organizations use the real-time web to challenge market incumbents? How can market incumbents continue to thrive in a real-time environment?
* How can real-time information overload be dealt with, technically and culturally? -
"Google's Fast Flip is, more accurately, an attempt to create a new UI for news — a better way to consume publishers’ content than publishers provide on their own sites.
"Most publishers are focused on how to charge for news. But there’s very little talk about how to innovate the packaging of news, much less a new UI for news. There’s very little talk about how people consume news on the web, about the value of aggregating articles from multiple sources, about solving consumers’ problems rather than publishers’ problems.
"That’s why Google is taking the lead on figuring out how to create the new news package, and why they will continue to control the lucrative front end of distribution, while publishers are left with far less profitable back end of content creation."
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Recent study to understand online news revenue opps, where the news industry is, and where it's going. Based on 118 online interviews with news execs.
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"75% of newspaper execs believe that if their content were no longer available on their website, online users would foremost turn to the print edition of the newspaper. Meanwhile, only 30% of online news users said they would turn to the print edition in such a case; the No. 1 choice (at 68% of respondents to a 2009 Belden survey) was to look to “other local media sites.”
"Wow. That pretty much says it all. Many newspapers are doomed without management change at the top, moving people into the executive suite who have a better grasp of reality. Or the people already occupying those offices need to get new glasses."
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