Category: Crowdsourcing
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Google Correlate. Political Operatives Find it Useful.
Morning Edition had a neat tech story about Google Correlate that you can listen to and get the quick summary. You can find the information you need about Google Correlate Compare US states Compare weekly time series Compare monthly time series Documentation Comic Book FAQ Tutorial Whitepaper Correlate Labs Search by Drawing
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OpenFile is Similar to ChicagoTalks, AustinTalks Model
OpenFile is a collaborative local news site. Stories are suggested by readers, selected by editors and investigated by professional journalists. We are an independent online newsgathering organization dedicated to local journalism. OpenFile’s journalists and editors research, write, and share stories that matter to Torontonians. We embrace a collaborative approach to news by encouraging members of […]
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Craig Kanalley, Editor, on BreakingTweets at Six Months
Originally, Breaking Tweets was to be nothing more than a personal blog, telling a few major stories around the world every day through the use of Twitter. It blossomed into something so much more. It’s been 750 posts, 6,000 featured tweets, and 150,000 unique visitors (320,000 pageviews) from 194 countries since then — and more […]
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I Can Has Cheezburger Provides Ideas for Journalists
Image via Wikipedia Mark Brigg’s blog brought this idea out. Filtering (POV) is going to be a paid and highly paid at that, feature of good news. There is still value for news reporters and organizations to be “source leaders.” I am one who believes that there is an important role for the professional news […]
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NTIA seeks volunteers to review broadband applications – Network World
Image via Wikipedia The NTIA, in a document released this week, asks for people to apply to become volunteer reviewers of the broadband grants. The NTIA’s broadband grant program is part of $7.2 billion that the U.S. Congress approved for broadband in a huge economic stimulus package approved earlier this year. Small Business UC for […]
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A Map to Get from Here to the Future of News
The aim with interactive collaborative maps of this kind is to weave together all of the salient issues, positions and arguments dispersed through the community into a single rich, transparent structure – in which each idea and argument is expressed just once – so that it’s possible to explore all perspectives quickly and gain a […]
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Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets
Journalists, writers, teachers, students who want to write will find this a good read. Academics discuss the MLA convention and the rocky relationship between journalists and academic writer/scholars. Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets This summarizes their gripes but gives you something to think and even write about Shumway argued that “reporters who cover academics […]
Barbara K Iverson 