Day: November 14, 2008
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On IdeaLab: Stack Overflow is your premium question answer tool
I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a few medium-length items over at IdeaLab every week. here’s a start: Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems The premise? Stack Overflow, a new-ish site for programmers to answer each other’s questions, has a great voting system for comments, which are really just…
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Placeblogger: More human than ever
Check out the redesigned Placeblogger a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner. The aggregation-by-location niche seems to be blowing up lately, especially as startups try to hitch their maps to the iPhone’s wagon, but Placeblogger feels like real live humans are writing blog posts in real live places. I like that. via the Knight Foundation Blog.…
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Help a journalism startup out
Why We Should Feel Bullish For the Future of Journalism: “Go ahead. Go get lost on the web for 20 minutes, find a journalism startup you like and email the founder to let them know you support what you are doing. You’d be surprised how much that means to them and how much that can…