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Basecamp for Small-Team Organizing
via Center for Citizen Media: Blog by Dan Gillmor on July 02, 2008
For the past several years I’ve been involved in a variety of projects ranging from education to startups. All have involved collaboration, and in most cases the people involved were not in a single location.One tool has risen above the others for helping keep projects running smoothly. It’s called Basecamp, an online collaborative-organizing system, and it’s gaining adherents all the...
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Internet Argument
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
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Video at the top 23 papers
via News Videographer by Angela Grant on June 18, 2008
Check out this article that rates the web sites of the top 23 largest circulation newspapers in the U.S. Use of multimedia was one of the criteria that 24/7 Wall St. (a financial news and opinion site) used to grade the sites. Here are excerpts of what the article says about video and multimedia.New York Times (A) - ” … it also has many features built just for the online version. These...
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The Real Threat to AP
via Rebuilding Media by dorian on June 17, 2008
There’s a lot of grumbling and retorting about the AP’s attempt to then sort-of retreat from making bloggers either paraphrase or take down their pickups of material from the venerated wire service. But there’s a more immediate problem that runs deeper than complaints from bloggers like Michael Arrington, Jeff Jarvis or Jeff Nolan.A few weeks back the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer on...
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Skype 4.0 Beta: It’s All About Video
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 17, 2008
Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen. Video is front and center. “Our old UI was purpose-built for voice ,” Silverman tells me. (I put an excerpt from my...
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Struck with indecision over a restaurant choice? Let the iPhone 3G decide
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on June 17, 2008
I’m indecisive when it comes to picking restaurants to eat at. Annoyingly so, I’ve been told. I simply don’t care the majority of the time; I’ll eat anything. Urbanspoon’s new native iPhone application may be the perfect tool for me.The app is extremely simple. You open it, it detects your location then you shake your iPhone. This causes a series of sliders to spin around like a slot...
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Beatblogging success story: The “Open for Business” sign
via By Daniel Victor by Daniel Victor on June 16, 2008
... social networking can revolutionize small-town beat reporting.A woman in the town I cover believed that she had spotted an injustice. (I won’t go into detail for competitive reasons, and because my work on the possible story is ongoing.)But she didn’t know what to do with this knowledge, so like any other computer user, she turned to Google. She typed in the name of a resident in town who...
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Time reports on a group of folks who are trying...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on June 17, 2008
Time reports on a group of folks who are trying to whittle down their possessions to 100 items.Bruno keeps a running tally on his blog, guynameddave.com of what he has decided to hold on to and what he is preparing to sell or donate. For instance, as of early June, he was down to five dress shirts and one necktie but uncertain about parting with one of his three pairs of jeans. "Are two pairs of...
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Bridging the Gap Between Journalism and Search
via NewAssignment.Net by Tom Cheredar on June 17, 2008
Mahalo, the human powered search engine, surprised me very recently with their response to the tragic news of journalism-great Tim Russert’s passing.I had heard the news via twitter before anywhere else, but there were zero details. Whatever work ethic I had gathered to finish daily tasks was now gone – replaced with clicking link after link searching for a full report. The same AP story came...
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