Year: 2008
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Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fire
The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now. This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire…
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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…
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Twingr: Create Your Own Twitter
Looks like a proprietary Twitter clone where you can restrict access to a given set of users. Twingr: Create Your Own Twitter
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Community-funded news launches at Spot.Us
Fellow Knight News Challenge 2008 winner David Cohn took the wraps off the latest iteration of Spot.Us over the last few days, launching an engine for community-funded reporting from donation to publication. Here’s the explanatory video: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2041615&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 Spot.Us – Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. I love the idea that Spot.Us could do…
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Packaging national election headlines for local news sites with Publish2
Happy Election Day-After! I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it. One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for…