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A TweetGrid-like interface for NYT (article skimmer)

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What we're trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn't just expensive and inefficient; it's laughably so.

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Yawn ;)

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Get Alerts of Actions for the Issues you care about - Just follow one or more of the Twitter accounts shown.

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The impact of the case in a Los Angeles federal court is significant, experts say, in that it expands the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was passed in 1986 as a tool against hackers, to include social networking Web sites. The case has drawn

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As blogger Tim Mallon put it, "I started to see and (sic) ugly side to Twitter, far from being a crowd-sourced version of the news it was actually an incoherent, rumour-fueled mob operating in a mad echo chamber of tweets, re-tweets and re-re-tweets.

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John Oliver must run before John King finds out he knows too much about CNN's magic touch screen.

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Same gang of Somali pirates who captured that Ukrainian ship with 33 tanks and military weapons. Interestingly, reports have shown that pirate "mother ships" travel far out to sea and launch smaller boats to attack passing vessels, sometimes using rocket-

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Markets exist to convert good information into profitable investments. And, in their deep agnosticism, they also exist to allow false information to create quick profits. During that brief window, false information may in fact be easier to exploit — it sh

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Strange but heartwarming... Reunion from the iPhone microphone mugging.

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A neat collection of quotes from celebrities on their thoughts on Palin. Thing is, 10 out of 10 think Palin is a bad idea. Is LA Times' list diverse enough?

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"Citizen journalism" apparently just failed its first significant test.  A CNN iReport poster reported this morning that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the ER after a severe heart attack (story and screenshot below).  Fortunately, it appears the story was

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Total coverage, minimal bias, C-Space does good by aggregating online presidential debate into onto one page.

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News reported on TV appears more credible than print newspaper, while online news edges in between. Interestingly, news media credibility is on a general decline.

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Great overview on the ethics of security / vulnerability disclosure. The ethics of full disclosure are intimately familiar to those of us in the computer-security field. Before full disclosure became the norm, researchers would quietly disclose vulnerabil

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News and comment on the world's most ambitious scientific experiment: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva

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CNA can has blogs, but it'd be cool to see how they use it to the new organization's advantage. Oh, and look what they did to their iMac!

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49% of Americans believe that the federal government should regulate the Internet the same way it does radio and television, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey. 73% say it should be a crime to harass someone on the Internet.

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In this May 14, 2008 file photo, a man waits for his mobile phone to charge after a generator was brought to a temporary outdoor shelter in Dujiangyan. Long live the cellphone!

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Story gets 2500 Diggs, 200+ Stumble Reviews and it was fake. The crowd can get it wrong sometimes (via @0boy + @digidave).

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