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“Starting today, every tag page on HuffPo features realtime conversation search. Search for the tag “Facebook,†you’ll see related HuffPo stories as well as recent related Twitter conversations, via a sidebar widget.”
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NRDC vehicle policy director Roldan Wong is getting interviewed on Seesmic right now. many videos in this thread. This video post includes a pretty good explanation of bothe “deamn shock” and financial market shenanigans.
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I love this — a collection of all the various messages the Twitter folk have shown when the service is down — which happens…. (Hey, it’s free, you get what you pay for…)
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YouTube’s intor video for its new citizen journalism channel
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“Users are now starting to send messages on FriendFeed as if they’re twittering. FriendFeed’s UI is not designed to effectively show such updates without seeming….disruptive.”
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A way to add video effects to your video chats… Works with mac, but not with iChat.
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“Nokia ntends to expand its use of Linux across its product portfolio. Handsets are bound to get swept into the mix at some point, but technically, we could just be looking at other kinds of devices. Always room for another Internet Tablet or three.”
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OK, this is a very intriguing animation tool. Just watch. So simple, but so compelling…
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New blog from BusinessWeek. Reporter Tim Catts is travelling the US for 4 months, blogging on how the recession is affecting the country, its people, and its businesses. Readers can suggest story ideas and help BW editors decide where to send Catts.
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May 15: “We are creating a fully integrated [art] department in editorial that will combine our print photo, Web photo and video operations into one new department: Visual Journalism. It will be headed by Colin Crawford.”
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“McCainpedia, published by the DNC, presents info re McCain’s alleged flip-flops, etc. But the McCainPedia is a wiki in lockdown. People can’t edit, question, add or remove stuff. It’s an example of anti-social media. It’s Potemkin Village 2.0.”
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Re: Knight grant to create “crowdfunded” journalism: “I hear my idea was the most contentious of all the winners: the web judges loved it and the journalist readers didn’t. So far response is postive, but I expect negative reactions and have responses.”
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“Service devoted to the needs of student journalists. Identify & promote the brightest young content creators & deliver their work to a larger audience. Career networking community dedicated exclusively to aspiring media talent.”
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Michele McClellan posted a query on Twitter: “Hey, journobloggers: I’m writing a post for the Knight Center about why newspaper editors should blog. I’ve got my reasons; what are yours?†Like a tiny stone tossed into a pond, it started producing r
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Twitter conversation between journo and community yields a corrected headline. “A seemingly small thing, but indicative of a change in how audiences and journalists can work together to produce a higher standard of journalism.”
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Cheri Campbell (Olevia on Twitter) said: “Saw @bpp tweet about DC madam suicide. Put them in touch with [my] stepsister, who was a friend. My direct message to @bpp resulted in this story: http://snurl.com/29xqj.”