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DocumentCloud and OpenCalais: Some Questions
Recently another KnightNews challenge winner announced the availability of the open source version of the code. This time DocumentCloud, a joined effort of NYT and ProPublica (not sure why these bigshots need grant money to do these things, but this is another story). It is opensourcing CrowdCloud which claims: Parallel processing for the rest of […]
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links for 2009-09-24
Introducing News Dots – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars, topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together, News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a giant social network. Subjects—represented by the circles below—are connected to one […]
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links for 2009-09-23
Creating a New Image for EC2 by Rebundling a Running Instance – Alestic.com Creating a New Image for EC2 by Rebundling a Running Instance (tags: content tutorial aws ec2 ami imgae bundling) Amazon EC2 (tags: content tutorial aws ec2 ami image creation) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (tags: content tutorial aws ec2 ami image bundling)