Category: Newstangle
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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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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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Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
I’ve never used Zipcar but hear it’s awesome. Now you can find the nearest available car, make a reservation, and unlock the door with an iPhone app. Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
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Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
A useful guide, especially if your blog is still outfitted with the default blue theme and zero plugins. The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
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Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
No nonsense tool to convert color codes. Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
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Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
Full audio and transcript of a recent Clay Shirky talk that includes this note on the unbundling of media: “So, in the language of my tribe, the aggregation of news sources has gone from being a server-side to a client-side operation — which is to say, the decision about what to bring together into a…
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VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead
Here’s NiemanLab’s interview with Aron Pilhofer from the New York Times on the big additions to the list of DocumentCloud partner organizations. VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead