Year: 2007
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YourStreet
Kinda like a map-driven Topix. Might make more sense in a larger city – searching my town just reminds me how few official news sources there are here. In other words, YourStreet needs more incoming feeds. YourStreet
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Image Editing: Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist Remover – Lifehacker
Like Photosynth in reverse, sort of. Image Editing: Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist Remover – Lifehacker
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The Yellow Stereo > ::Video:: | Daft Punk | “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (live)
Mindbending live Daft Punk concert video. The Yellow Stereo > ::Video:: | Daft Punk | “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (live)
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Brijit – Great content in 100 words or less
Magazine articles, summarized, aggregated, rated, linked. A little NYT-heavy at the moment, but the more users, the more diverse it should get. via Rex. Brijit – Great content in 100 words or less
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How are visitors using comments? – IHT.com Developer Blog
Comment links on story summaries do better than free-standing pleas for discussion, and a few other tidbits. How are visitors using comments? – IHT.com Developer Blog
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Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Toolkit” – Engadget
Be sure to check out the ‘Posts from the Reuters mobile journalism trial’ link to see what they produced. Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Toolkit” – Engadget
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The Student Newspaper Survival Blog: Curleyizing your student newspaper
“I’ve seen new media guru Rob Curley give basically the same speech four times in the past few years, but I always find his message inspiring.” The Student Newspaper Survival Blog: Curleyizing your student newspaper
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Ahead of the game
Some journalism school students have reason to worry. They’re a few months away from graduating in 2008 with a print-and-A1-photo skillset circa 1988. But five clips and a smile won’t get you much of a competitive edge these days in an increasingly crowded job market for reporters with straight-ahead text skills. Mindy McAdams drives that…
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The smartest thing I’ve read in a long time
From Deborah Potter at Advancing the Story comes a short and sweet post about NaplesDailyNews.com. “Print reporters and photographers were all told that they no longer worked for the paper, says Phil Lewis, editor and vice president of naplesdailynews.com/Naples Daily News. They were all transferred to dot.com–which the company now sees as a kind of…