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NYT announces two new initiatives including data analytics vertical

Posted by mgdiaz on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:46PM
from the poynter.org dept.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/230520/nyt-names-new-d-c-bureau-chief/

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College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday August 24, 2013 @11:23PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sports/ncaafootball/college-footballs-most-dominant-player-its-espn.html

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The rise of the personal franchise site in news

Posted by mgdiaz on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @11:25PM
from the pressthink.org dept.

http://pressthink.org/2013/07/the-rise-of-the-personal-franchise-site-in-news/

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10-Year Documentary about the Mission to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday November 09, 2012 @12:16PM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bluebrain-documentary-premiere

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Google Working on Maps for iPhone, iPad

Posted by mgdiaz on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:50PM
from the bits.blogs.nytimes.com dept.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/google-working-on-maps-for-iphone-ipad/

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Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps

Posted by mgdiaz on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:06PM
from the googleblog.blogspot.com dept.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/dive-into-great-barrier-reef-with-first_25.html

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CyanogenMod will never have Carrier IQ

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday December 02, 2011 @01:00AM
from the cyanogenmod.com dept.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-will-never-have-carrier-iq

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ThinkUp goes 1.0: First free app to archive & analyze Twitter, Facebook and G+

Posted by mgdiaz on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @12:47AM
from the dashes.com dept.

http://dashes.com/anil/2011/11/thinkup-1.0.html

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Re:Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation... on Thursday May 19, 2011 @01:03AM (#2562945)

A friend of mine is directing a 10-year film-in-the-making chronicling the development of Markram's research.

Here's Year One of the project: http://vimeo.com/8977365

House votes to repeal "net neutrality" rules

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday April 09, 2011 @02:45AM
from the salon.com dept.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/08/us_internet_rules/index.html

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F.B.I. Seeks Help Cracking Code in Victim’s Notes

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:21AM
from the fbi.gov dept.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911/image

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The Dimensions of Design

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:15AM
from the core77.com dept.

http://www.core77.com/blog/articles/dimensions_of_design_by_sami_nerenberg_18914.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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Physics/Applied Math major takes on World of Warcraft in-game physics

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday January 29, 2011 @09:06PM
from the us.battle.net dept.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1869247673

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President of RISD on the importance of art for innovation

Posted by mgdiaz on Thursday December 30, 2010 @01:58PM
from the seedmagazine.com dept.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_meaningful_observation1/

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New Data Shows WikiLeaks Has Sharply Raised Spending

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday December 25, 2010 @03:07AM
from the online.wsj.com dept.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703548604576037623559323348.html

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Real-world prototyping of scriptable public space

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:20AM
from the urbanode.net dept.

http://urbanode.net/2010/12/prototypes-for-discoverable-services-in-public-space/

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Do Not Track could revolutionize online ad industry

Posted by mgdiaz on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:44PM
from the usatoday.com dept.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-12-13-1Adonottrack13_CV_N.htm

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WikiLeaks Can Still Get Cash – Thanks To Pirate Bay’s Co-Founder

Posted by mgdiaz on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:19PM
from the blogs.forbes.com dept.

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2010/12/07/wikileaks-can-still-get-cash-thanks-to-pirate-bays-co-founder/?boxes=Homepagechannels

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Designing The Washington Post for iPad – Detailed Wireframes

Posted by mgdiaz on Thursday November 11, 2010 @02:09AM
from the sarahsampsel.com dept.

http://www.sarahsampsel.com/blog/2010/11/10/designing-the-washington-post-for-ipad-detailed-wireframes/

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"Underground: Tales of hacking, madness..." by S. Dreyfus with Julian Assange

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday October 23, 2010 @06:27PM
from the underground-book.net dept.

http://www.underground-book.net/

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Iraq: The War Logs

Posted by mgdiaz on Friday October 22, 2010 @05:05PM
from the guardian.co.uk dept.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq-war-logs

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Kiva CEO On The Next 5 Years And Why Zynga Is Their Biggest Rival

Posted by mgdiaz on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:08PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/kiva-ceo-on-the-next-5-years-and-why-zynga-is-their-biggest-rival-tctv/

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“Public Media” $100 Million Plan: 100 Journalists Per City

Posted by mgdiaz on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @03:53PM
from the newsonomics.com dept.

http://newsonomics.com/public-media-100-million-plan-100-journalists-per-city/

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Bill Gates Announces $20 Million Program to Expand Educational Technology

Posted by mgdiaz on Monday October 11, 2010 @05:24PM
from the readwriteweb.com dept.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bill_gates_announces_20_million_program_to_expand.php

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Reuters experiments with new points system for comments

Posted by mgdiaz on Thursday September 30, 2010 @11:28AM
from the blogs.journalism.co.uk dept.

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/09/30/reuters-experiments-with-new-points-system-for-comments/

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Automated Computer Tutors With a Human Touch

Posted by mgdiaz on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @08:02PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19Essays-tutors-t.html

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Designing journalism to be used

Posted by mgdiaz on Sunday September 26, 2010 @05:49PM
from the jonathanstray.com dept.

http://jonathanstray.com/designing-journalism-to-be-used

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The Genius of the Tinkerer

Posted by mgdiaz on Saturday September 25, 2010 @01:17PM
from the online.wsj.com dept.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503730101860838.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_2#articleTabs%3Darticle

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Re:Graphs on Thursday July 22, 2010 @05:22PM (#1539579)

I agree. It was about building the structure of a social network around the "asymmetric follow," and doing it in a way that facilitated the curated transitivity that Chris talks about.