Tag: news
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Putting Botnets in the News Literally
Harnessing spare computer cycles isn’t new. Trying to use robots to harvest and produce news isn’t new. The start-up Shakr Media intends to “…automatically produce video versions of that company’s bloggers text, in near real time.” Shakr says it will come up with an app so that end users to create multi-media shows out of…
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Sell news like water, but not for chocolate
This is where the internet comes in. Newspaper sites need to convince the public that they want to start paying for something they have been getting for free for years. There are many theories as to how this can be done: some suggest pay walls, some suggest charging for new add-on services, some suggest daily…
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News from Stats and Stockphrases
Imagine that you could push a button, and magically create a story about a baseball game. That’s what the Stats Monkey system does. Given information commonly available online about many games—the box score and the play-by-play—the system automatically generates the text of a story about that game that captures the overall dynamic of the game…
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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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Reporter’s Center on Youtube is a Good Reporter Resource
YouTube – reporterscenter’s Channel. Related articles by Zemanta YouTube Rolls Out Redesigned Channels for All New Users (mashable.com) http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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About VBS.TV- another way to do news
ABOUT VBS VBS is an online broadcast network. We stream original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. We carry a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world. People have used words like eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary to describe VBS,…
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Where is currentbuzz.org ?
Move with me to my new blogging site. You can find my archives here, but my new stuff is at currentbuzz.org If you live around Chicago or are interested in community and citizen journalism please take a read at CreatingCommunityConnections.org a site developed to publish local and hyperlocal stories about all of Chicago’s great neighborhoods.…
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Wisdom of crowds brought to web by Wikis–next big thing
This is what I have been telling students and others for sometime. Our century» Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: “The community should own the knowledgebase, Mitch said. It’s a kind of commons, and not owned by a business organization monetizing the sites. The business organization…
Barbara K Iverson 