Daily Archives: September 8, 2008

Google Expands Online Newspaper Archive Search

Via Tech Crunch from *TechCrunch* by Erick Schonfeld Google announced today that it is expanding the historical newspaper articles that are searchable online. In partnership with newspaper publishers, it is scanning their print archives and making it available on Google’s … Continue reading

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Will New Media Save Television Ads?

Via Mashable by Mark Drapeau Add a Comment People often speak of old and new media as a dichotomy, with stodgy network television channels and traditional newspapers on the one hand, and hip, technologically sophisticated youth on the other. But … Continue reading

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Digging Deeper::The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online

Via Mediashift – by Mark Glaser In 2004, the major political conventions gave a few dozen bloggers press credentials, a historic moment for the new media outsiders. And this year, the political conventions have tried to be even more open … Continue reading

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First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released

Via ARS Technica By Ryan Paul | Published: September 05, 2008 – 05:13PM CT Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 “video” element and a handful … Continue reading

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Blogger Conditions Worsen as Many Defend Palin Pick

Via Mediashift by Laura Hertzfeld, 2:35PM Laura Hertzfeld Shame on us, the media, for thinking the Republican National Convention would pale in comparison to the Democrats’ show in Denver last week. For bloggers on both sides of the aisle here … Continue reading

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Lessons from Katrina Help Media, Volunteer Efforts in Gustav Coverage

Via Mediashift by Mark Glaser, 11:43AM Map of evacuation centers and routes When Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast, the evacuation of the area went much more smoothly than during Hurricane Katrina three years ago. This time, the local, state … Continue reading

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Silverlight Battling Flash AND JavaScript For Long-Term Legitimacy

Via Mashable by Paul Glazowski So a whole lot of people thought Microsoft’s Silverlight technology warranted an install to watch the summer games in Beijing at NBCOlympics.com. And another big crowd felt different, thinking, among other things, that the use … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 is about giving up some control

Via Gerry McGovern Web 2.0 is part of the shift away from the dominance of the elite to the innovation of the collective. Social media is just that—social. Blogging, wikis, rating and voting systems are based on the idea that … Continue reading

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German Security Office Smells Stink on Google Chrome

Via Mashable by Paul Glazowski Germany’s Office for Information Security, also known as the BSI, has apparently looked at Google’s Chrome browser and felt a pinch of uneasy déjà vu (a la Microsoft), only this time sensing that the company … Continue reading

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New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper

ia the New York Times Plastic Logic/Sony/Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony’s eReader; right, Amazon.com’s Kindle. The … Continue reading

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