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Tag Archives: filters
Memeorandum has become essential
I have been hard on Memeorandum in the past, believing that its story selection algorithm’s were too narrow, that it promoted a small subset of the Web, but just look at it. Look at it again. Memeorandum is the only … Continue reading
Sean Blanda on Remixing the News
eMedia: Remix the News: “Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora”: “there is no service that adequately customizes content to my tastes based on previous reading” A good read with some important ideas. The only thing … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media, Journalism, norgs, and the future of news
Tagged APIs, feeds, filters, journalism, norgs, programming, RSS
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Open Source news and knowledge aggregation projects that have caught my eye recently
Managing News Ushahidi ThinkTank The Fifty State Project Media Cloud A little further down the stack: code.reddit.com GeoDjango Django web.py Flask Drupal
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming
Tagged filters, journalism, norgs, open-source, process, programming
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Online heroes – Ushahidi
“Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis”: “a small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, which has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and which may have something larger to tell us about the future of … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism
Tagged civmedia, filters, heroes, programming, Ushahidi
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Worth a look
Feedjack – A Django+Python Powered Feed Aggregator (Planet) Feedjack is a feed aggregator writen in Python using the Django web development framework. The basis of a Philly Future re-build and re-invention?
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Philly, PhillyFuture.org
Tagged Django, filters, internet, philadelphia, Python
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The NYTimes gets into Blog Aggregation!
TechCrunch: NYTimes Blogrunner v. TechMeme. They are using a technique I had originally suggested while I worked at Philly.com to handle the enormous legal and quality concerns – use a third party aggregator service like Blogrunner. Bravo to the NYTimes
Posted in Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media, Journalism, norgs, and the future of news
Tagged blogging, filters, journalism, norgs, nytimes
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Emptied Bloglines account
On Friday, in a moment of either clarity…or something else… I removed all of my subscriptions from Bloglines. I had grown frustrated with my habit of checking a few times an hour for updates. I’ve mentioned before that Memeorandum is … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media
Tagged feeds, filters, RSS, web
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Some tech/media/online community/citizen journalism bits
Google blog search launches in beta! More at Om Malik’s and at Paid Content. I have no opinion yet. Got to do some digging. The Columbia Journalism Review was with the Times Picayune in New Orleans as it produced its … Continue reading
The NYTimes planning an aggregator?
OJR: GrayLady.com: NY Times explodes wall between print, Web At the Times, Nisenholtz has ambitions to super-charge the Web site and take it beyond the realm of newspaper sites and into the top tier of news sites online. He told … Continue reading
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Tagged filters, journalism, norgs, RSS
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“filters, aggregators and producers”
The Long Tail: Brands: response: …my point about brands becoming people rather than products or companies is specific to long tail markets. In short tail markets, such as traditional retail, I imagine that the usual brands will continue to dominate … Continue reading