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The Sports section at the Daily Telegram now features "Lenawee Sports Around the Web," powered by Publish2.
Added: February 8, 2010 at 12:02PM EST
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The Capital Weather Gang provides background and context for this weekend's ridiculously massive winter storm in the DC area, explaining their forecast, their method, and the outcome. Plus, the obligatory satellite photo of the damage.
Quote: Like most big storms around here, Snowmageddon arrived with only a brief period of lighter snows before it quickly started piling up. Unlike many storms in these parts, it began producing multi-hour snowfall rates of up to 2-3" per hour prior to midnight on the 5th. These continual super bands ejecting north around the strengthening low pressure off the coast contained whiteout conditions and instances of thundersnow, both typically associated with the most powerful winter storms on the East Coast. Added: February 8, 2010 at 10:04AM EST
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This book is a data-focused remix of "Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist," the book Adrian Holovaty often recommends to journalists who want to get started with Django.
Quote: Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. Added: February 5, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
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A great explanation of how comments work on Gawker blogs, powered by karma, Facebook Connect, and heavy moderation of new commenters before they're set free on threads.
Quote: There are three levels of commenters: Unapproved, Approved and Starred. You basically have to audition for the right to comment, by leaving a smart blurb—if it's good, you'll get approved by an editor, one of our moderators, or a starred commenter, and then people can see your comment. Added: February 3, 2010 at 4:45PM EST
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Aardvark has published a whitepaper outlining some of the technology and much of the logic behind their social search engine.
Quote: We demonstrate that there is a large class of subjective questions — especially longer, contextualized requests for recommendations or advice — which are better served by social search than by web search. And our key finding is that whereas in the Library paradigm, users trust information depending upon the authority of its author, in the Village paradigm, trust comes from our sense of intimacy and connection with the person we are getting an answer from. Added: February 3, 2010 at 1:57PM EST
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This is a game in which you attack your enemies by yelling loudly into a microphone. (Spotted via Engadget.)
Added: February 2, 2010 at 10:43AM EST
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As I read this sordid tale of a mild, attention-seeking con that roped in a few journalists, I can't help but notice that the only people who smelled something fishy were Wikipedians.
Quote: What brought Roberts down was one of the tools he used to hoist himself up, Wikipedia, on which he posted no fewer than five fake entries: for himself, for his fake line of Rothschild family members and for one of his fake companies, Rothschild Estates. His antics caught the attention of the Wikipedia Review after editors kept deleting the fake entries and Roberts kept trying to resurrect them. Added: February 1, 2010 at 11:21PM EST
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A primer including the origins of crucial one-liners by Dave Winer, Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and a few more.
Quote: When I dove into the future-of-journalism world, I quickly found that a few of these phrases function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas. They often get traded without explanation and sometimes without links, leaving the uninitiated pretty confused and possibly a little turned off, too. Added: January 30, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
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Another take on the iPad -- and the reaction to it from some technologists -- that's a bit closer to how I feel about both.
Quote: Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Added: January 29, 2010 at 5:04PM EST
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Spot.Us staff gather news stories, editorials, and video complementing an upcoming crowdfunded investigation into the UC Regents.
Added: January 29, 2010 at 11:09AM EST
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