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June 27, 2008
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In part two of his seminar to the Guardian, as part of the Future of Journalism series, Jeff Jarvis argues that links are worth more than content
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Part one of Jeff Jarvis’s seminar to the Guardian as part of the Future of Journalism series
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June 26, 2008
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Content verticals that newspapers used to own–news, sports, jobs, real estate–have fragmented across different channels. Newspapers must shift focus from content to audience, pursuing aggregation, syndication, and social engagement across all media.
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What are venture capitalists looking for? If you are a startup entrepreneur looking for funding, it’s always a good idea to know what investment themes a VC is interested and tailor your pitch to those themes.
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June 25, 2008
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It’s too simple to say that new media are killing the old. Interest in news is sky-high, and each needs the other to supply material and drive attention. They’re melding–still symbiotic, but it’s hard to tell who’s the rhino and who’s the tickbird.
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Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions. Because in the era of big data, more isn’t just more. More is different.
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I want a place I can go every day and get inspired by real people. It hasn’t happened for me in many years in traditional media and honestly it’s happening for me less and less these days in online/social media.
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June 20, 2008
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June 19, 2008
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Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
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He challenged the notion that “the market for data” is most important, arguing that there is far more opportunity in “markets enabled by data”–markets that require raw data itself to be commoditised. Free the data; run the market.
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Eight of Ohio’s top newspapers are sharing content in a cooperative effort called the Ohio News Organization, or OHNO. The arrangement will allow the papers to sidestep the AP. Could this system be a lifeline for struggling news organizations?
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Gov. Jim Douglas signed Miscellaneous Tax Document, which could revolutionize the way startup companies are formed and run. The law no longer requires physical headquarters, in-person board meetings, or other regulations irrelevant in the digital age.
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By helping entity founders to create robust online organizations, and by helping participants to find and play roles that maximize productivity and effectiveness, the Virtual Company Project hopes to enable new types of economic and social productivity.
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June 18, 2008
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Two music marketers think advertisers that will underwrite free downloading. They’ve put together of network of MP3 blogs. And they’ve done advertising deals with Microsoft’s Zune portable music player and Toyota’s Lexus.
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Technorati tracks the authority, influence, and popularity of blogs, the leading emerging topics, and who and what are most popular in the blogosphere. This data, combined with robust indexing technology, forms the basis of an ad targeting platform.tech
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Technorati exposes many of its data services via an application programming interface (API). Developers and power users may signup for the Technorati developer program and agree to our terms of service to use Technorati data in their applications.
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You can use our API to integrate Summize search results with your own apps, clients, and readers. Find tweets containing a word, from a user, to a user, referencing a user, or containing a hashtag
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SproutCore is a framework for building applications in JavaScript with little code It helps you build full “thick” client applications in the browser that can create and modify data, often completely independent of your web server.
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June 17, 2008
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Hama is a parallel matrix computational package, which provides an library of matrix operations for the large-scale processing development environment and Map/Reduce framework fo linear regression, PCA, SVM, etc.
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Newsmakers control coverage of them. It’s invidious. But if journalists didn’t need to worry about access, they would do a better job. That’s why citizen journalists, without worries about access, can be as honest as conventional journalists want to be.
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June 16, 2008
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June 14, 2008
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Web Analysis and Search: Hubs and Authorities; Small-World Phenomena and Decentralized Search; Cascades, Diffusion, and Community Formation in Social Networks; Network-Structured Markets; Clustering, Indexing, and Data Mining
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…linear programming duality, metric embeddings, random walks, random sampling, spectral partitioning and clustering AND graph partitioning & approximation algorithms, approximate sampling and counting, and high-dimensional clustering and indexing.
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June 13, 2008
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This StreamGraph shows the top twitter users based on the number of tweets sent during the period December 2006 until April 2008.
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Among the questions posed last week was this: in an era when anyone with a cellphone and wi-fi can make like Tom Brokaw, do the long-accepted conventions of engagement (like a reporter’s volunteering who she is without being asked) still apply?
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The media reform movement is “the most significant citizens’ movement to emerge in this new century,” said Bill Moyers for the National Conference for Media Reform. Check out ALL the speakers, including Larry Lessig, Keith Ellison, Arianna Huffington.
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New Friendfeed Yahoo pipes courtesy of Tim Hoeck. These pipes will show who comments on your items the most, and who likes your items the most. The other 2 pipes will show who you like the most and who you comment on most.
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