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New Twitter applications just keep getting more and more fun, but they are tough to keep track of.
Here’s a delightful and encompassing post from Flowing Data on 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe.
(Call me crazy, but it reminds me of “Visualize Whirled Peas.” )
The blog’s author, Nathan Yau, says he is a UCLA [...]

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I come from the “follow-the-money” school of journalism, so I’ve written about more than my share of billions over the years. But Alan Mutter took my breath away with his post cataloging the staggering volume of dollars that have fled newspaper help wanted, or so-called “recruitment” ads.
Newspapers have lost more than half of their print [...]

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The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]

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Some followup notes from my delightful conversation this morning on KNPR’s State of Nevada, with host Dave Berns and his panel of so-called “witty academics.” (The audio with David Damore, Ken Fernandez and me from University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Eric Herzik of University of Nevada, Reno, is here.)
During the show, I mentioned a [...]

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Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time.
— Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author
(thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)
 

So “The [...]

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Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas
What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content?
People will buy it.
Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff.
The numbers are overwhelming and [...]

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J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]

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What’s Happening Cover
Originally uploaded by Something To See
Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons.
Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else.
That’s the case with my friend [...]

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Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and text [...]

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Easy for him to say.
Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks and a net worth north of $2 billion, also happens to be a blogger. So when he came to speak at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, a couple hundred bloggers showed up and listened up.
Cuban said a lot of provocative things, but [...]

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