Day: November 17, 2008
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Who’s hiring? Blogs.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009: “So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White…
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JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
Mmmmm – Add a JSON model to your Django app for easy export. JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
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Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties? SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com. “Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work…
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Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup
Know what Foo Camp is? Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me. Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…
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Notes from Sergey Brin and Chris Anderson on building participatory systems to scale
Chris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale. It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles: “But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say…