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Storystreaming submitted to Knight News Challenge

For those of you following the marriage of storytelling and lifestreaming, I have submitted an application for the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Please visit my submission and rate it when you get a chance. Most importantly, please leave comments. How can the project be improved? What tools features need to be covered? What technologies can [...]

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Use MapaTwit to find Rick Sanchez or map any Twitter user

Have you ever seen a Twitter user with a pair of long numbers listed as his location? The example on the right is from the profile of CNN’s Rick Sanchez. Where and what the heck is ÜT: 41.273614,-72.751469? Rick is using ÜberTwitter on his Blackberry to update his location from where he is tweeting. The numbers [...]

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Spent some time working on 140pix

My apologies for neglecting this blog for more than a few days. I’ve been working on another side project, not related to journalism, but full of links and Twitter madness. Quick summary: 140pix.com is a blog of galleries made from pictures that people have posted on Twitter. I’m starting off with a Southern California edition [...]

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The ad unit that works in RSS feeds, no plugin or widget required

Sponsor message: Jsavers offers journalists their own WordPress blog for $5 a month. No, this blog post is not really sponsored. But you sure did notice my fictional sponsor, didn’t you? I’ve been kicking around the idea of simple, human-placed text ads that could appear at the top of any (textual) blog post or article. This [...]

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