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• [from drewvigal] Journalism Programs - Curriculum - Is There Too Much Tech Training at the Nation's Journalism Schools?

  "For years, journalism schools nationwide have been bulking up on courses designed to prepare the next generation of reporters for the brave new world of digital media. No longer is it enough for students to master writing, interviewing and editing; these days they must blog and design websites, shoot digital video and use Twitter." More…

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• [from williamcouch] VLC media player for the iPad

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• [from tysone] Arthur Sulzberger on charging online: to succeed, we need to take risks - Editors Weblog

  Asked about his response to the suggestion that the NYT might print its last edition in 2015, Sulzberger said he saw no point in making such predictions and said all he could say was that "we will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD." More…

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• [from williamcouch] DockArt

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• [from williamcouch] single-pixel scanner photos - lens culture photography weblog

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• [from williamcouch] ChurchKey: Ambitious Vision Is Realized As D.C.'s Very Best Beer Bar: DCFoodies.com

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• [from tysone] YouTube - Wall Street Journal takes on New York Times ???????????

  After more than a century of peaceful co-existence, the Wall Street Journal has decided to take on the New York Times head on with its Greater New York section. New owner Rupert Murdoch declared "let the battle begin." Is this going to be a newspaper war for the ages? Or have the readers already moved on....online? More…

  posted by tysone

• [from tysone] Civic Stack - Civic Commons Wiki

  The "civic stack" is a shared body of software and protocols for civic entities, built on open standards. A primary goal of Civic Commons is to make it easy for jurisdictions at all levels to deploy compatible software. Pooling resources into a shared civic stack reduces costs and avoids duplicated effort; equally importantly, it helps make civic IT expertise more cumulative and portable across jurisdictions, for civil servants, for citizens, and for vendors. More…

  posted by tysone

• [from williamcouch] The Real 'Stuff White People Like?

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• [from tysone] On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography | booktwo.org

  This is historiography. This is what culture actually looks like: a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual and not always correct codification.
  
  And for the first time in history, we?re building a system that, perhaps only for a brief time but certainly for the moment, is capable of recording every single one of those infinitely valuable pieces of information. More…

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• [from drewvigal] Polarization of Supreme Court Clerks - Graphic - NYTimes.com

  "Supreme Court justices generally hire clerks who have worked for federal appeals court judges. The conservative half of the court overwhelmingly hires clerks who served judges appointed by Republican presidents, while the liberal half of the court is more likely to hire clerks from judges appointed by Democrats, a pattern that was not as strong 30 years ago." More…

  posted by drewvigal

• [from drewvigal] David Beach's Blog: Developing for Android

  "Like it or not, Android is huge. Creating an open source mobile platform was one of the smarter things Google has done. It's too bad that they haven't done that great of a job doing it. Android has succeeded despite Google. In fact it's safe to say that Android is successful for one primary reason. The iPhone is only available on AT&T. If the iPhone was on Verizon a year ago. Android would be no where near as popular. But since this has yet to happen, Android has become a huge market that isn't going away." More…

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