New C-SPAN Sites Get Way Unboring With YouTube, Twitter, Qik, Flash… (4)
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I’m willing to stand up and say it. C-SPAN, which is dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, is the one channel that we all skip past as fast as possible on those rare occasions that we actually flip the channels on un-Tivo’d television. If not for The Onion making fun of it all the time, I’d forget it existed. If CSPAN has a demographic, no one I know is ...
GRL's James Powderly detained in Beijing for planning pro-Tibet "L.A.S.E.R. Stencil" art protest - Boing Boing (9)
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Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing they learned of Graffitti Research Lab founder James Powderly's detention by Chinese authorities in Beijing via a Twitter direct message that read "held since 3am." I just spoke to the SFT representative who has been Powderly's closest contact, and this person says Powderly has now been held for more than 19 hours with no further word. So far there's no acknowledgment from officials in Beijing that Powderly ...
NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source (9)
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NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story, author, and publication’s credibility, which is then plugged into an algorithm to determine the site’s prominent headlines. We originally introduced the site last May when it launched in private alpha. Since then, NewsCred has implemented a number of ...
Workstir To Build A Sort Of Yelp/Craigslist Hybrid (6)
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I saw a demo of Workstir earlier this week, a new startup founded by Ryan Merket and Duncan Winter. The site is still in private alpha and is at least a few weeks away from launching, but they have an interesting approach to cracking the local services market. Think Craigslist + Yelp, where people sometimes post listings looking for service providers, and service providers sometimes post listings saying what they do. But listings, profiles, reviews ...
Phelps-Cavic photo finish (15)
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Underwater photos from the finish in the men's 100-meter butterfly finals, both just before Phelps and Cavic touched the wall and just after. It's amazing how far Phelps was behind before his half-stroke. Cavic seems like an interesting guy and is handling the close loss well. He wrote an entry on his blog entitled "Success!!!" On winning a SILVER medal: I am completely happy, and still in complete disbelief that I was able to achieve ...
The art of rustling up readers, by Scott Rosenberg (9)
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I saw this on Twitter today from Jay Rosen: Publishing used to be the barrier. Now that publishing is easy, getting your stuff picked up, linked to is an essential skill. Jay was responding to a question from Howard Rheingold, who asked: Skills for digitally-savvy journalists: RSS, map mashups, widgets, Twitter (video goes without saying). What else? I read Jay’s answer and had two thoughts. One, this is absolutely right. Two, it is an insight ...
