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Four lessons from Flipboard’s reinvention for the iPhone

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Poynter Institute - By Jeff Sonderman - Dec. 07 (News Analysis) - The most popular news aggregation app for the iPad launches a new iPhone version Wednesday. Flipboard’s redesign for the smaller screen offers lessons in how publishers should tailor apps for the different needs of tablet and smartphone owners.

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Nonprofit News Groups Face Uncertain Financial Future, Study Finds

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Chronicle of Philanthropy - By Cody Switzer - Oct. 19 (News Report) - Nonprofit news organizations can’t live on well-reported articles and foundation support forever, says a new report by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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A guide to Baltimore’s online news ecology

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Michael Byrne - Aug. 09 (Special Report) - For six months, Baltimore was fortunate enough to have an organization here dedicated solely to analyzing the city’s journalistic output, NewsTrust Baltimore (the local pilot project of the larger NewsTrust organization). It was a bit like Yelp crossed with the Columbia Journalism Review. The project ceased operations on July 31 (it was always intended as a six-month pilot), leaving behind a collection of reports, one of which is a final comprehensive analysis of sorts. It eventually concludes, “The local news scene is in a state of flux with more than a little creative chaos. But patterns are emerging. As news startups and impassioned individuals become more rigorous and as traditional news organizations become more open and responsive to the public, there is a growing opportunity for collaboration across the local journalistic community.“

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Matt Damon Defends Teachers Against 'Sh***y' Reason.tv

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Aug. 02 (News Report) - Following his keynote address, the actor took offense to a Reason.tv reporter who contended that, as opposed to the environment faced by teachers in a tenure system, the lack of job security in acting functions as an incentive for hard work.

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Syria: Bloggers Rally for Anas Maarawi

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Yazan Badran - Jul. 09 (News Report) - Anas Maarawi is the latest Syrian blogger imprisoned. He was detained on Friday, July 1st, in his neighborhood of Kafarsouseh in Damascus. And nothing has been heard of him since. Bloggers rally for his release. Anas is a well known blogger in Syria and beyond. Apart from his personal blog, Anas Online, he ran a number of tech-blogs and projects, most prominently, Ardroid, which was the first Arabic-language blog to focus on Google's Android OS.

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Casual Libel at ThinkProgress

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Jun. 14 (News Analysis) - This is, of course, the latest chapter in ThinkProgress's crazed attacks on the Koch brothers. The gist of TP's most recent accusation is that David Koch blocked the National Institutes of Health from classifying formaldehyde as a carcinogen while he was a member of that agency's board. As usual with TP's attacks, not a word of it is true.

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Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - May. 21 (News Analysis) - As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR has been doing for the past few months during the upheaval in the Middle East. As I’ve written before, there is a growing need for this kind of curation, but there is also the need to start looking at news as a process and not as a pristine, finished product. While many media outlets have web editors who track reports on Twitter and other social media, the BBC is unique (as far as I know) in having a special desk that sits in the middle of the newsroom and pulls in reports from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and anywhere else it can find information. The desk staffers then try to verify these reports, and some of the ways they do that are fascinating.

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Pew finds shift in where people turn for news

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive Populist - May. 01 (News) - People are spending more time with news than ever before, but they are increasingly finding it on the Internet while the cable TV audience declined, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, in its State of the News Media 2011 (stateofthemedia.org) reported. In December 2010, 41% of Americans cited the Internet as the place where they got “most of their news about national and international issues,” up 17% from a year earlier.

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Center for Public Integrity to launch daily investigative newspaper

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Business Journal - By Bryant Ruiz Switzky - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Wrongdoers beware: D.C.’s Center for Public Integrity is unfurling a daily digital investigative newspaper that will go live in about a month. The new product, likely to be called iWatch or Integrity Watch, will feature 10 to 20 original investigative stories per day about corruption, political ethics, corporate accountability, “truth watching,” and waste, fraud and abuse.

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Mother Jones web traffic up 400+ percent, partly thanks to explainers

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Nieman Journalism Lab - By Megan Garber - Mar. 04 (News Report) - February was a record-breaking traffic month for Mother Jones. Three million unique users visited the site — a 420 percent increase from February 2010’s numbers. And MotherJones.com posted 6.6 million pageviews overall — a 275 percent increase. The magazine credits the traffic burst partly to a month of exceptional work in investigations, essays, and exposes, its editorial bread and butter: real-time coverage of the Wisconsin protests, a Kevin Drum essay on the consequences of wealth inequality in America, the first national media coverage of that infamous prank call to Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. The also mag credits the traffic, though, to its extended presence on social media: Mother Jones’ Twitter followers increased 28 percent in February, to more than 43,000; its Facebook fan base grew 20 percent, to nearly 40,000; and its Tumblr fan base grew 200 percent, to nearly 3,000 followers. In all, the mag estimates, a cumulative 29 percent of traffic to MotherJones.com came from social media sites.

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NewsTrust Baltimore takes a local approach to media literacy and showcasing new journalism

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - Feb. 09 (News Analysis) - NewsTrust sees its mission as helping readers find “good journalism” by giving people the tools to separate good from bad. But when it comes to journalism, good and bad aren’t exactly universal truths anymore. Is a story good if it adheres to facts but lacks strong writing? Is a story bad if it’s on a blog, regardless of how it’s reported? And what if its told through an ideological or political lens different from your own? While NewsTrust has previously employed its tools for vetting journalism on a national level, their newest test, NewsTrust Baltimore, takes things to a smaller scale — namely one where readers’ connection to news is based on geography (will a new school be built? is the police department cutting staff? did the legislature cut taxes?) and necessity. That familiarity, with both the news and outlets reporting it, could make for a better experiment in media criticism as well as media literacy. Who better to judge the Baltimore Sun or WYPR than the people who live in the area?

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How to Understand Rush Limbaugh

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Commentary Magazine - By Wildred M. McClay - Feb. 09 (Special Report) - It also points to a curious fact about Limbaugh’s standing in the mind of much of the American media and the American left. Even though they talk about him all the time, he’s the man who isn’t quite there. By which I mean that there is a stubborn unwillingness, both wishful and self-defeating, to recognize Limbaugh for what he is, take him seriously, and grant him his legitimate due. Many of his detractors have never even listened to his show, for example. Some of his critics regularly refer to him as Rush “Lim-bough” (like a tree limb), as if his name is so obscure to them that they cannot even remember how to pronounce it. ... He conducts his show in an air of high-spiritedness and relaxed good humor, clearly enjoying himself, always willing to be spontaneous and unpredictable, even though he is aware that every word he utters on the air is being recorded and tracked by his political enemies in the hope that he will slip up and say something career-destroying. Limbaugh the judo master is delighted to make note of this surveillance, with the same delight he expresses when one of his “outrageous” sound bites makes the rounds of the mainstream media, and he can then play back all the sputtering but eerily uniform reactions from the mainstream commentators, turning it back on them with a well-placed witticism.

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Video Killed the Radio Star, But Might Save Newspapers

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Dec. 22 (News Analysis) - What comes to mind when you think of newspapers? Whatever it is, its probably not streaming video. And yet, one of the interesting facts in a new survey of the online video market (PDF link) from video-hosting platform Brightcove and analytics provider TubeMogul is that newspapers overtook broadcasters in terms of the total number of video minutes streamed in the third quarter of 2010. As news publishers of all kinds try to move their operations online, more and more seem to be getting the message that the future includes video. The Brightcove and TubeMogul report shows that the number

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The Foursquare for Websites, OneTrueFan Launches in Beta, Opens Up to Publishers

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - By Leena Rao - Dec. 16 (News) - OneTrueFan is a service for web publishers that allows visitors to earn badges for interacting and sharing content on the site.

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How Senator Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Rachel Slajda - Dec. 02 (News) - The announcement came from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Lieberman said in a statement that Amazon's "decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material."

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Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government”

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

zunguzungu - By Aaron Bady - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - If Wikileaks is a different kind of organization than anything we’ve ever seen before, it’s interesting to see him put himself in line with more conventional progressivism. Assange isn’t off base, after all, when he quotes Theodore Roosevelt’s words from his 1912 Progressive party presidential platform as the epigraph to the first essay; Roosevelt realized a hundred years ago that “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people,” and it was true, then too, that “To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship.” Assange is trying to s--- all over this unholy alliance in ways that the later and more radical Roosevelt would likely have commended.

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Twitter Gets to Use Your Photos, for Free? (Updated)

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Violet Blue - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Twitter has been making a lot of changes lately, and photographers may want to re-read that fine print in the Terms of Service... every photo you share on Twitter can be sub-licensed by Twitter, or worse - all royalty-free.

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Internet Access Torpedoed by Damage to Submarine Cables

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Quantcast - Sep. 19 (News Analysis) - An analysis of internet traffic for the past few days from our Quantified Publishers reveals the extent of the damage to certain countries' internet users.

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The Future of Social Media in Journalism

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Vadim Lavrusik - Sep. 13 (Special Report) - The future of social media in journalism will see the death of social media. That is, all media as we know it today will become social, and feature a social component to one extent or another. After all, much of the web experience, particularly in the way we consume content, is becoming social and personalized.But more importantly, these social tools are inspiring readers to become citizen journalists by enabling them to easily publish and share information on a greater scale. The future journalist will be more embedded with the community than ever, and news outlets will build their newsrooms to focus on utilizing the community and enabling its members to be enrolled as correspondents. Bloggers will no longer be just bloggers, but be relied upon as more credible sources. Here are some trends we are noticing, and we would love to hear your thoughts and observations in the comments below.Collaborative ReportingReporting has always in some ways been a collaborative process between journalists and their sources. But increasingly, theres a merger between the source and the content producer. As a result, more journalism will happen through collaborative reporting, where the witness of the news becomes the reporter, says David Clinch, editorial director for Storyful and a consultant for Skype. Journalists, Clinch says, must be able to pivot quickly between the idea of using the community as a source of news and as the audience for news, because they are both.This requires a shift in the mindset of journalists, who are used to deciding what news is and how it is covered, produced and distributed, said Alfred Hermida, professor of integrated journalism at the University of British Columbia. Social media by its very definition is a participatory medium, Hermida said. There is a potential for greater engagement and connection with the community, but only if journalists are open to ceding a degree of editorial control to the community.For those who involve the community in the reporting process, the payoff can be great. A noteworthy example is the way the newly launched TBD.com, a news startup in Washington D.C., has integrated social media and enlisted a community of bloggers into the newsgathering and production process, creating a collaborative reporting environment. This has allowed them to lay claim to several local scoops, said Liz Heron, social media producer at The New York Times. Heron also says TBDs engaged community gave them an edge in reporting the Discovery Channel hostage situation.The fact is, whether to the detriment of news gathering or to its benefit, there is no longer a need for journalists to provide 90% of the daily coverage in local communities, says Susan Mernit, Founder of Oakland Local, a community news startup. A lot of this can be done by enlisting a community of intelligent contributors who are already doing their own reporting using social media.Journalists need to give up their self-adoration as the authority on the topics they write about, said Michele McLellan, a journalist and consultant who works primarily with the Knight Foundation and Knight Digital Center. Members of any community are the experts in what they are experiencing and seeing on given topics.McLellan said journalists would be better suited by developing skills to fill the information gaps, offering broader perspective and context on the information, and fostering conversation around it.Journalists as Community ManagersJournalism has often been done from the top of a mountain journalists would tell the community what they need to know. Today, much of the news has become a conversation, and journalists are being required to do as much listening to the community as they broadcast to them. The voices in the community were always there, but were often lost at neighborhood meetings and forums. Now, many of these conversations are taking place online, and journalists will more than ever need to think from the start of their reporting about what conversations need to take place as well as what platforms will foster those conversations, McLellan said. Journalists will no longer focus exclusively on gathering information and producing a story. Now theyre managing and amplifying the conversations the community is having; conversations that will happen with or without them. Of course, a recent example of this is the community sharing information on the Boulder fires in Colorado.Journalists are going to have to get the conversation ethic down if they want their work to penetrate the noisy web, McLellan said.Though journalists are taking on new skill sets like programming and multimedia production, more journalists will need to have a grasp on community engagement and developing news conversationally with readers, said C.W. Anderson, assistant professor of media culture at City University in New York (CUNY). Sure, many news organizations are hiring full-time community or social media managers to focus on just that, but in the future, it may very well be at the core of the journalism process, integrated into traditional beat work.The Social BeatA journalists future beat of coverage and rolodex of contacts will, and in many cases already does, include the social web. Its becoming the center of where readers are pointed to news and perhaps more notably where the community shares or creates their own news. Mernit from Oakland Local, said their community uses Facebook to send them information to redistribute. People dont send me e-mails, they tag me in a note, she said.Because for many people social sites have become their landing page for news, journalists have to find ways to integrate their editorial role into the streams, and not just be off to the side on another platform, said Clinch of Storyful. Powerful journalism can take place on Twitter, Facebook and even YouTube, he said.Social StoriesThe social story interaction the way users engage content is entering into the consciousness of news editors and producers as they think through the outline of a story. It could very well be that well see more stories that have deep social integration, especially for in-depth and crowd-sourced pieces. Journalists have always created story packages for different platforms, says Hermida, but the difference with social platforms is that they are shared spaces and so the stories there are more open and collaborative, challenging journalists prevailing dogma of we write, you read.For now, many of the examples include using social content as part of a story, such as CNNs visualization of what World Cup fans were saying on Twitter. Taking social data and conversation and making sense of it will likely become more streamlined, and perhaps even more accessible to those besides major news organizations who have the resources to develop such packages.One of the challenges with the social stream as a means for news consumption is that it often lacks context a challenge on the web in general. Its likely that taking a fresh approach to publishing this information may help provide that context, which is something newly-launched sites like Intersect are trying to accomplish. They are enabling the community to share stories that are attached to a time and a place and showcase that information on a timeline that intersects with peoples stories.Other companies, like Context Optional, are jumping into the social market to help publishers create more compelling content on social platforms, specifically rich-media posts on Facebook. This includes wall posts that are more than just blurb text and a link with a thumbnail, but also interactive polls and interactive flash displays.Online Curation for a Time-Poor AudienceJournalists will also have social content creation more integrated into their workflow, whether that means creating content for specific platforms, or using the content from that platform for the purposes of curation. One of the challenges is giving writers and producers tools that they can use to pull disparate elements into stories from Twitter, YouTube and other sources beyond just text from wires, Clinch said. Thats why Clinch is working on Storyful, which uses professional curators to gather social and web content and produce a story out of it. Here is an example of a curated stream from Storyful that uses a combination of reports and social information available:Journalists must be able to professionally and responsibly curate events in real time, Clinch said. This is not just about curating real-time content from Twitter and other sources but also the ability to pull in context and even commentary in a way that helps the audience understand what is happening.Anderson from CUNY said the big difference between curation as it once was and what it is now, is that that it is done online, in public. And despite there being less original reporting, he thinks, or maybe just hopes, that the decrease in original fact gathering can be made up through smart curation. This enables journalists to play the role of a trusted guide, says Hermida, which means applying journalistic skill to help the audience negotiate the wealth of information now available.In a world of news and information, there is a role of a professional who can curate this for a time-poor audience, Hermida said.The Social Network as the New EditorThough journalists clearly have a role in curating web content and making sense of the noise, slowly a new player is emerging to fulfill the role as a partial news editor. That player is the social network of the reader and consumer. Whether it is the people that a reader follows on Twitter or a new iPad application that helps visualize news being shared in the social space, each of these personalized social news streams are helping readers decide what they need to read.Platforms like Twitter can turn our social network into our editor, Hermida said. Once this role was the preserve of a newspaper editor, who decided what the public should read that morning. Now people can turn to their social networks to find out, what do my friends or people I respect think I should read about this morning.Clinch says news agencies must find a way to incorporate and reference the social news wire into their products, or they will continue to lose customers.Beyond Twitter & FacebookNews organizations that have embraced social media have largely done so as a distribution channel, focusing on Facebook and Twitter because of the referral traffic that the platforms provide to their sites. But as news outlets realize the value is not only measured in clicks, but in an engaged and participating audience, they will look to take advantage of other platforms, and perhaps more importantly, other online communities. The buzz, of course, is out there: Will it be Tumblr? Foursquare? Whats next? And should we be everywhere? At what cost?Heron, from The New York Times, said she thinks more media companies will start developing special content for Tumblr. Its a very visual platform that allows more in-depth engagement than Facebook or Twitter, and journalists will have to do something special to distinguish their tumblogs from their existing websites or blogs. Of course, many news organizations, most infamously Newsweek, have jumped on the platform to stake their claim and build an audience there. Many of the tumblogs focus on specific subjects, such as ProPublicas Officials Say the Darndest Things.Monetizing SocialThough many news organizations would like to engage readers across many social platforms, the missing link is often justifying such resources that arent always easy to monetize, says Mathilde Piard, social media manager at Cox Media Group. Its all fine and nice to deliver the news in a way thats targeted to social platforms, but weve got to find a way to monetize that if were using these social platforms for more than just driving traffic back to our sites, Piard said.For many outlets, however, the justification is an increase in traffic, which they can then sell ads for on their site. But what about taking advantage of the platforms specifically?There certainly have been experiments, such as Minnpost.coms Real Time Ads, which sells a local businesses widget space to display their Twitter feed. This way, the business directly controls what is displayed on the site and the advertising has the potential to be more effective because of its social nature and users can engage it. Plus, the local business gets its social accounts exposed to a larger audience and is able to build a lasting relationship with readers.Another option that has potential is in-stream advertising from companies like Ad.ly, which is mostly known for celebrity-endorsed tweets, but also includes an API that enables publishers to monetize their mobile apps through targeted in-stream ads. Notable users of the service include Newsweek. Though its cost-per-share model isnt likely to solve any news organizations revenue issues, the amount advertisers are spending on social media is projected to grow. Experimenting with platforms and user-reactions to social advertising is becoming increasingly important.A Social Newsroom and the Personal BrandMore newsrooms are hiring community engagers and social media producers. Its not unlikely that the future newsroom will be filled with socially savvy personnel whose full-time job is to keep track of the pulse in the community.Were already seeing that with the Guardians network of science blogs, but more newsrooms will put resources into figuring out how to work with the community, not against it. This will also likely be made easier with sites like Ebyline coming into the mix, which simplify the relationship between publishers and a network of freelancers. This isnt just about news organizations struggling to cover the community, but also that the brand, expertise and in some cases credibility is shifting toward the individual and away from the institution. Social platforms present journalists with an opportunity to create and develop their brand[s] based on the value they bring to the network, Hermida said.A Mobile Social ExperienceWith more users getting their news via mobile, journalists are able to take the social experience with them. News organizations are able to provide more than just another news distribution channel, but a platform where users can engage on multiple levels.At the Oakland Local, modifying content to accommodate content interaction and consumption via mobile is becoming integrated into the production process, says Mernit, the sites founder. Mernit says they are increasingly looking at not only content production and how it will be consumed on mobile, but also to support two-way interaction and contributions from the community.Mobile is certainly helping journalists quickly produce content on-the-go. Though the app of choice on mobile could change quickly, right now it is of course Twitter, says McLellan, that is enabling journalists to easily update readers with news in real-time.Other mobile tools are enabling journalists to carry a multimedia production studio in their pocket, Hermida said. For example, he said, the 1st Video iPhone app from Vericoder enables journalists to shoot and edit video and audio, and create an audio slideshow, which can be uploaded directly into a newsrooms production system. As news organizations develop mobile applications, theyll include features that enable the community to contribute on the go, just as easily as the journalists.The way readers experience news and information is changing with mobile as well. Heron from The New York Times said news organizations could use augmented reality apps to help people at Fashion Week, for example, to discover hot spots for user tweets and location-based checkins and information about designers there.What are your thoughts on the future of social media and journalism? Add them in the comments below. Series supported by GistThis series is supported by Gist. Gist keeps you better informed with less effort by giving you a full view of your professional network in one place bringing together information from across the web for all your contacts giving you the right information at the right moment to get a meeting, deliver an amazing pitch, or just find a better way to make a connection.More Social Media Resources from Mashable: - How CEOs are Using Social Media for Real Results - How Small Businesses Will Use Social Media in the Future - How PR Pros Are Using Social Media for Real Results - How Freelancers Might Use Social Media in the Future - How Salespeople Are Using Social Media for Real ResultsImage courtesy of iStockphoto, enot-poloskunMore About: alfred hermida, bloggers, community managers, context optional, digital media, facebook, future of social media series, journalism, Journalist, multimedia, oakland local, reporting, social media, storyful, tbd, twitterFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad

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my6sense Brings Personalized Content Ranking App To Android Phones

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - Sep. 07 (News Report) - We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around my6sense, a digital intuition iPhone app. The app imports RSS feeds and social streams, and senses what you like to read based on your own behavior, surfacing the most interesting content to you from your streams. And the Israeli-startup just recruited well-known tech blogger and consultant Louis Gray as its VP of marketing. Today, the startup is bringing its personalized content app to Android phones with a new app and is adding support for Google Buzz. Once you sign in with your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, and Google Reader accounts, my6sense will serve the content in your social streams in one interface. Using the company’s ‘digital intuition’ technology, the app will analyze which types of content and sources you click on the most and then auctomatically surface similar content as you interact with the app.

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True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Caller - By Jonathan Strong - Aug. 23 (Investigative Report) - “It’s standard operating procedure” to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative. A GOP blogger-for-hire estimates that “at least half the bloggers that are out there” on the Republican side “are getting remuneration in some way beyond ad sales.”

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Truthsquad Shows Potential of Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Aug. 12 (News Report) - Florin said that the impulse behind both NewsTrust and Truthsquad was the idea that “if we are to become our own editors in the digital age, we need better tools and training to thoughtfully evaluate the credibility of the information we find online.”

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How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Vadim Lavrusik - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place in the way we consume news. We have gone from consuming news through traditional media and news websites to having the news broadcast to us by our social network of friends. In fact, 75% of news consumed online is through shared news from social networking sites or e-mail. Social news is finding us. Readers who still actively seek out the news want, and almost expect, it to be personalized and customized to their tastes and interests. News organizations, social networks and technology companies are all attempting to respond with sites and tools that address this changing shift toward a personalized social news stream.

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Taliban Responds to WikiLeaks

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Mushtaq Yusufzai - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Responding to WikiLeaks' release of tens of thousands of pages of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, a high-ranking Taliban commander rejected reports that the Taliban had any links with Pakistan’s spy agency. “Look, we’re at war and would like to get aid from anyone to fight against the U.S. and its allies who invaded our homeland,” Sirajuddin Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani network, told The Daily Beast on Monday, denying any existing links with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, known by its acronym ISI. According to The New York Times, the leaked military reports suggest that Pakistan—a country at least nominally a U.S. ally and the recipient of more than $1 billion a year in U.S. aid—has been collaborating indirectly or directly with the Taliban and its affiliates in Afghanistan.

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The Afghan War Diary

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

WikiLeaks - Jul. 25 (Special Report) - WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan. This leak covers attacks on innocent people committed by US forces, incidents of friendly-fire, and official speculation that Pakistan is assisting the Taliban rather than fighting them. If you want to understand the war then you need to read this!

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