News the Crowd Can Use
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Assignment Zero looks at "crowdsourced" media sites, which love to equate social editing with democracy. It's as raucous, messy and enthralling as the electoral process, and for proof look no further than the much-debated DVD hack posted at Digg.com.
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From Apple's boardroom to alternative energy, privacy, and piracy, it was easy to see how the news in 2007 got people stirred up.
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By Jennifer Smith, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun.
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.
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What the Internet tells us about how the media, advertising and awareness months spread information on diseases and illnesses
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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Read full story for latest details.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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D uring the past several weeks coverage of the elections in Ukraine by the Bangor Daily News has provided useful information pertaining to a global community rather than just a global economy.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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One of the great things about working in a newsroom is that you're surrounded by lots of smart people who love to tell you what they know. Just try to stop them.
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Long before the mass media overload of television, radio and computers, newspapers were the main source of information on local, national and international events.
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Hungry for updates from Athens? Click here for coverage.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 18--When is a big announcement not a big deal?   When it doesn't amount to a big hill of beans in the solution to a big problem.
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The days of exchanging neighborhood news solely over the back fence or at the local post office are long gone. And often, by the time community newsletters are written, printed and distributed, the information is stale.