Month: October 2009
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Readers expect news to find them
Of course we do. Gina Chen revisits “…if the news is that important, it will find me…” Readers expect news to find them
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An Open Letter To WSN
Things are heating up between the upstart online-only news site and the established student newspaper at my alma mater, New York University. An Open Letter To WSN
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ONA09 debrief and the swagger
Well, it’s been a pretty awesome week. I spent most of last Thursday through Sunday at the 2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco, and if you follow me on Twitter or spotted a short post on my blog over the weekend, you know that Publish2, my current employer, was honored with a rather…
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Knight Foundation to Fund Plug-and-Play Version of EveryBlock
Pat Thornton talks with Gary Kebbel about a possible future for EveryBlock’s open-sourced code: “The Knight Foundation is working with advisers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to form a team to further development of EveryBlock and make it much easier for news organizations to set up the software on their sites, Kebbel said. Knight…
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Publish2 Wins Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
At the Online Journalism Awards banquet this Saturday, Publish2 had the honor of receiving the first Gannett Foundation Award For Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism. Here’s our big thank you to all the journalists that made our success possible.
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The avatar problem
I’ll be at ONA09 for the next few days, where I’ll meet, probably, a few hundred people I know from the Internet. But they don’t know me. I mean, they know what I say and write and produce online, but most of them know my avatar better. That’s the one. I’m sitting outside at a…