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  • Kitsune tries Chatroulette
    HiLoBrow | March 15, 2010
    Psychoanalysis and literary tricksters from HiLoBrow. With video interludes that somehow include Logan's Run. All of this reminds me of college.
  • Chatroulette Map knows where you live (almost)
    Houston Chronicle TechBlog | March 11, 2010
    Dwight Silverman tries out a worrisome Chatroulette mashup that maps users and an image from their webcam. Yikes.
  • Kinda Sorta Media - Who
    Kinda Sorta Media | March 11, 2010
    Rex Sorgatz and friends have formed what sounds like a merry band of mercenary media types, roaming the streets of New York picking up gigs and staffing contracts with subsets of their network.
  • A Brief Inventory of "Competitor Collaborations" in the News
    jcstearns.posterous.com | March 11, 2010
    Josh Stearns notes the trend of inter-news-organization collaboration, most notably at newspapers in places like Ohio, Maine, Florida, and Texas, including mentions of a few projects powered by Publish2.
  • The case for context: my opening statement for SXSW
    Newsless | March 10, 2010
    Matt Thompson draws a bright line between the episodic distribution of information as it stands today, and emerging methods to put those episodes in context.
  • Intro to Final Cut Tutorials
    Photojournalism from a Student's Eye | March 11, 2010
    Daniel Sato shares a set of Final Cut tutorial videos he made for the newsroom in Garden City, Kansas.
  • Review: We Feel Fine (the book)
    FlowingData | March 11, 2010
    A review on an infographics blog about a book full of infographics created by monitoring other people's tweets and blog posts and whatnot for statements of actual emotion. Meta.
  • How I successfully turned my blog into a book: The Writing
    10,000 Words | March 8, 2010
    This is just Part 1 of Mark Luckie's series about turning his running catalog of lists, tutorials, and commentary into a real live book you can pick up at Amazon. Mark's process has always been an open dialogue with the online journalism community, and these posts continue it.
  • The Climate Desk
    Reuters | March 9, 2010
    Felix Salmon of Reuters announces a collaborative reporting project on the topic of climate change, featuring a group of news organizations you might recognize from last fall's Copenhagen Collaborative.
  • Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location
    New York Times Bits Blog | March 9, 2010
    As widely expected, Facebook is getting into the location game. Feels late, but 300 million users can't be wrong...

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