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• Delicious Reborn as Real-Time News Tracker
  
  Yahoo's social bookmarking service Delicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on Twitter to deliver what it calls the hottest news from around the web in real time. The new front page is focused on political and tech news instead of the most popular topic on Delicious, web design. While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute. It is something the site probably should have done a while ago and if done correctly could make other services,
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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• Tim O'Reilly - Why Twitter Matters for News
  
  Twitter has been used for a lot of different purposes, and one has been to report breaking news. But there's been some criticism of how Twitter deals with news, such as the Swine Flu outbreak. Twitter just meant that the news spread faster. A publisher pays With that in mind, O'Reilly Week in Review talked to Tim O'Reilly himself, co-author of the new Twitter Book , about the role of Twitter in informing the public. James Turner: Thanks for taking the time, Tim.
  OReilly Radar - Thursday, May 7, 2009
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• Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity!
  
  A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites of personal interest, including news sites and YouTube, provided workers a mental break that ultimately increased their ability to concentrate and was correlated with a 9% increase in total productivity. Really, though, reading news feeds at work and using social networking sites ( especially Twitter ) can lead to so many multiples in productivity that any surprise over this 9% finding is hard to wrap our heads around. Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity?
  ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, April 2, 2009
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• Introducing The Long News
  
  [editors note:  Kirk Citron proposed this idea of Long News to Alexander Rose, Stewart Brand, and Kevin Kelly a while ago.  Each weekday, The New York Times prints around 125 news stories. That’s just one newspaper; add in all other newspapers, plus television, radio, and the internet, and it’s clear thousands upon thousands of news stories are generated every day. While we have not found funding for it, Kirk has valiantly stepped up to be the editor of the program himself to try it out and see if it has legs.  Thanks!]
  The Long Now Blog - Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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• Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran
  
  The western world's most feared government is shaking with insurrection in the streets after a contested election and the leading name in news, CNN, is shockingly absent from the story. Twenty years ago this month, CNN brought live news about the Tienanmen Square uprising to the world. CNN anchor and mega-Tweeter Rick Sanchez defensively Tweeted hours ago that he covered Iran throughout Twitter , meanwhile, is how Iranians are communicating with the outside world. It's the best place to follow events going on in that country and CNN's failure to engage with the story is one
  ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, June 14, 2009
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• Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton and Reagan's
  
  Tags: New Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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• Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
  
  say about the future of the news ecosystem, it’s essential that we travel news institutions. conversation about the future of news, we need to start by talking about But if you wanted to find out news about the Mac -- new machines from Apple, the latest word on the upcoming System 7 or HyperCard, or any new releases from the thousands of software developers or peripheral manufacturers The following is a speech I gave yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin.   I If you happened to being hanging out in front front of the old College
  stevenberlinjohnson.com - Saturday, March 14, 2009
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• The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the Crowds" - There is No Crowd
  
  The term, which implies that a diverse collection of individuals makes more accurate decisions and predications than individuals or even experts, has been used in the past to describe how everything from Wikipedia to user-generated news sites like Digg.com offer better services than anything created by a smaller group could do. And as for Digg.com , a site whose algorithm is constantly tweaked in attempts to democratize the votes of its users, it still remains a place where a handful of power users can make or break getting a news item to the site's front page. Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes a big hole in the prevailing wisdom that the "wisdom of crowds" is a trustworthy force on today's web.
  ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, September 17, 2009
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• The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity
  
  Tags: New Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla 's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patterns. The most radical proposal we have seen so far would do away with the standard browser tabs, and replace them with an interface that looks more like
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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• Make Google Search Real-Time With This URL Hack
  
  Tags: New Google web search results can be limited by timeframe using the "search options" link on every page, but one startup company CEO discovered today that searches can also be limited to results indexed minutes or seconds ago by making a simple change to the search results page URL. Startup search engine Omgili's CEO Ran Geva wrote on his company blog today that time-limited search results pages include a parameter called QDR - perhaps standing for Query Date Range.
  ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, September 13, 2009
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