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How will investigative journalism survive in the digital age?
via MediaShift by (author unknown) on April 25, 2008
With the daily drumbeat of cutbacks at newspaper companies, there is less room for investigative reporters who can take weeks or months to do one in-depth report. If their future isn’t secure at mainstream media outlets, then where will investigative reports come from? TV news? Non-profits like the Center for Public Integrity or ProPublica? Online-only outfits like TalkingPointsMemo or The...
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Macs: they're not for everyone.
via The Macalope: An Apple blog by The Macalope on April 02, 2008
Yesterday ComputerWorld brought us 5 reasons to ditch the Mac and return to PCs. And, sadly, they weren't kidding.Listen, then, Mac user to the tale of one "Mac fan" who switched... back! (Please shoot the Macalope now.)So while Apple's sales continue to grow, Keanini decided to buck the trend, and gave up on his most recent Apple machine, an Intel dual-core based MacBook Pro.That seems...
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Hamilton Promised Rare McLaren LM for Title
via Winding Road by Seyth Miersma on March 27, 2008
... of the McLaren F1 super car, the LM, if he wins a world championship this season and helps the McLaren team win a constructors title. Hamilton has reportedly been smitten with the F1 LM, built to celebrate the McLaren F1 GTR’s which won at Le Mans in 1995, since the first time he saw one ten years ago.“When I first went to McLaren it was there and I fell in love with it,” said...
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Windows Mobile 6.1 for the BlackJack Hacked and Installed
via pocketnow.com by Chuong Nguyen on March 27, 2008
Engadget Mobile is reporting that Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard has been hacked to work with the BlackJack. If you can't wait for the official update, assuming one is actually coming for the soon to be retired original BlackJack and not the BlackJack II, then you can head over to TxCaesar's Mobile Repository and grab yourself the ROM. At this time, the cooked ROM is in alpha and beta forms....
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Finally, Sync Any Calendar to Any Calendar
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on March 26, 2008
Keeping up with multiple calendars can be hard. Many people have one for work, with details on important meetings, phone calls, and to-do's, and another for the family, with the kids' activities, personal errands, and family whereabouts. Online calendars have made it easier to access all your different calendars on the web from anywhere you have an internet connection, but frequent...
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Topless meetings for team focus?
via 43 Folders - by Merlin Mann on March 25, 2008
When it’s hard to stay focused, try going ‘topless’ to meetings - San Jose Mercury NewsOur good pals over at Adaptive Path have been experimenting with banning laptops and other communication devices in meetings (something I’ve supported in the past). From today’s Mercury News:Frustrated by distracted workers so plugged in that they tune out in the middle of business meetings, a growing...
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Mii Jesus advertises for Easter services
via Nintendo Wii Fanboy by David Hinkle on March 23, 2008
Filed under: Fan stuffThe Mii. At the rate it's going, we're sure it'll be Time's Person of the Year or something soon. And the church is starting to get that popularity, apparently, as a Jesus Mii is being used to advertise Easter Sunday services for the Mission Bay Community Church.The church itself is located in the San Francisco area and, to our knowledge, the first of its...
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Happy newsrooms, sad newsrooms
via Teaching Online Journalism by Mindy on March 21, 2008
In yet another inspiring post, Colin Mulvany of The Spokesman-Review encourages those who work in today’s newsrooms:One of my longtime mantras has been that there can be no more “just photographers” or “just reporters.” Everyone now needs to be multimedia producers. That’s my story and I’ve been sticking to it. My goal is not to change the newsroom in mass, but to empower one person...
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Fast is better than slow
via Official Google Mobile Blog by Lawrence Chang on March 19, 2008
By Robert Hamilton, Product Manager, Google mobile teamA few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application, opening it, and navigating to Google.com before entering your...
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