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Seth Lipsky is ever-so-slowly resurrecting The New York Sun as a stripped-down, online-only version of the newspaper he ran between 2002 and 2008. “We plan to build it up,” he told me yesterday, referring to nysun.com.His most-recent addition to the site is a 20-week run of crosswords by the Sun’s highly acclaimed, former p (Read More)
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The Inquisitr » Tech
Automattic, the company behind WordPress and self-proclaimed nazis when it comes to enforcing the strictest interpretation of open source on others, have announced that they’re moving WordPress.com to Microsoft’s Azure cloud hosting.At the Microsoft (MSFT) Professional Developers Conference on Tuesday, Automattic founder Ma (Read More)
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When I meet people and the "what do you do for a living" question comes up*, my new acquaintances tend to jump to the conclusion that I somehow fund my lifestyle by playing video games all day long, or they assume I simply do nothing but write reviews (for the record, I'm happy I don't!)Although many of you who visit me her (Read More)
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Innovation in College Media
American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio are sponsoring a meeting focused on the Future of News. You can watch a live stream here.From the intro:The decline of journalism in America is reaching the point of crisis. Newsrooms around the nation are shrinking while the need for high-quality, objective news, information (Read More)
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Google Blog Search: "social media"
Wow. A friend (thanks, Ron) sent me today his collection of social media job descriptions that are popping up across the web as more and more companies jump on board the hype train.Needless to say, many of them are underwhelming. Alarming at worst, eliciting a sigh at best. And I actually think the poorly crafted job descri (Read More)
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MediaShift Idea Lab
Today in the New York Times science section you'll find a piece written by Lindsey Hoshaw about the Pacific garbage patch and an accompanying photo slide show. This piece would not have been possible if Spot.Us and a community of over 100 people hadn't come together to fund her trip.It is a great case study for Spot.Us, and (Read More)
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MacBlender
John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a "rollercoaster ride," and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch. (Read More)
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In what is otherwise a fairly straight article about the latest failed hijinks from one of our nation’s two esteemed political parties, a reporter for the Hartford Advocate either forgets to put a certain phrase in quotes, or is just WACKY. Here’s a link, for using one off-key phrase, out of nowhere, in some alt-weekly! [Ha (Read More)
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