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Kelly Nash

WDUQNews: "How's My Street?" - 0 views

  • ...because the more recent the information, the more valuable it is."
  • could we have scheduled snow trucks at the right places based on the real time information inputted by people in the city
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    Citizens utilized crowdsourced information for timely data about news that would directly impact their lives and could lead to the development of a more effective response system based on this time-based information.
Corinna Sherman

The Twitter Train Has Left the Station - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • “Twitter is crack for media addicts,” he writes. “It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think I could handle it.” Call me a digital crack dealer, but here’s why Twitter is a vital part of the information economy — and why Mr. Packer and other doubters ought to at least give it a Tweet.
  • Most importantly, Twitter is transforming the nature of news, the industry from which Mr. Packer reaps his paycheck. The news media are going through their most robust transformation since the dawn of the printing press, in large part due to the Internet and services like Twitter. After this metamorphosis takes place, everyone will benefit from the information moving swiftly around the globe.
  • ordinary Iranians shared information
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  • spread news from inside the country
  • filtering, entertainment and serendipitous value
Corinna Sherman

'Controlled Serendipity' Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too.
  • “In the past, I may have used this time in the day to read newspapers, magazines or books. Now I have just substituted the same time with reading and sharing news online.”
  • “controlled serendipity,”
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  • We’ve reduced the fear of missing something important because we share “controlled serendipity” with others and they with us.
  • We are all human aggregators now.
Corinna Sherman

Spinuzzi: About those health care bill town halls - 0 views

  • This year's technology is Internet video, which protesters have leveraged to self-report their protests. The Drudge Report had at least four links to such videos yesterday, and Instapundit, which has reported on continuing "tea parties" since they started, has more.
Chelsey Delaney

Facebook on Google Buzz: How Well Does That Friendship Model Work? - 1 views

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    Buzz's asymetrical friend model based on most frequent contacts in Gmail-not necessarily user-approved connections. Problematic?
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