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Democrat & Chronicle's RocDocs
RocDocs is a fantastic section on DemocratandChronicle.com where users can go to search records ranging from how qualified teachers are in their district to how much they're paying police officers for overtime. The newspaper is also inviting users to help be watchdogs.
Nov 26, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says
Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.
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Nov 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Photoshopping the Red Sox
Rabid fan base + access to Photoshop = hours of entertainment. That's what the Boston Globe figured, at least, with this gallery of photoshopped Red Sox images. The offerings range from inspired to downright weird, and they've got 135 up (and counting?). Check out the Napoleon Dynamite tribute.
Oct 30, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Google News launches Facebook application
Google News has launched a Facebook application: download it here.
"This experimental application enables users to create custom sections or select from a set of pre-defined topics, then browse and share stories with their friends on Facebook," says the Google News Blog."
Oct 22, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
ABC Reshapes the Evening News for the Web
Brian Stelter takes a good look at the evolution of ABC’s evening news Webcast.
ABC is the only major broadcast network that is using the staff of its evening newscast to produce a separate and distinct daily program for a Web audience. The 15-minute Webcast often features Mr. Gibson in the anchor chair, but the similarities end there: the segments can run long, and they purposely look raw and personal, as if they were made for MTV rather than ABC..Over the course of 20 months, the Webcast has evolved from a basic distillation of the day’s news into an original program that incorporates video blogs, first-person essays and interviews. It covers many of the same stories as its television sibling, but often in a different way: in one example, the day after President Bush announced gradual troop cuts in Iraq, Mr. Gibson was shown debriefing the network’s chief White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz, in the Webcast for a full 3 minutes and 20 seconds — an eternity on a half-hour television newscast
Oct 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
WNYC crowdsourcing: Are You Being Gouged?
WNYC's latest crowdsourcing project asks listeners to go to their local grocery store and find out the price of three goods: milk, lettuce and beer.
You don’t have to buy them (or consume them), but we want to know how much they cost in different neighborhoods throughout the New York area.Here’s the assignment:
Go to your local bodega, supermarket, or gourmet grocery store and get the prices for our predetermined basket of goods. Here’s the shopping list:
-a quart of regular, non-organic whole milk
-a head of iceberg lettuce
-a 6-pack of 12-ounce Budweiser (bottles)Then, come back to our website and leave the following information in a comment:
-The prices of these goods
-The neighborhood where you bought them (please give exact address, or at least the block and cross street)
-The name of the supermarket
-Any distinguishing characteristic (e.g. Korean Deli, high-end retailer, etc.)
-Whether or not you were surprised (yes or no)?You have until next 1 pm on Monday, October 1st to carry out the assignment. This is something you can do in the course of your regular shopping trip, but we encourage you to go the extra mile and report on neighborhoods and stores you wouldn’t normally shop in.
Next week we will report the findings, along with a map showing the most expensive and least expensive neighborhoods, and talk about what they mean on the air.
Sep 24, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
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