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  • Some Thoughts on News Registries

    EdNotes: This post has been hanging around unpublished since July 24th. Just discoverde that i missed to push the publish button. Since i still think that it is relevant i’m going to push that button now. Yesterday the Associated Press made her move and announced their plans for a news registry based on the hnews […]

  • 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 […]

  • (Centralized) URL Shorteners considered harmful (Part II)

    This is a follow up post on this post, detailing  bullet points 1 – 4 . Reasons for not having centralized URL shorteners Back on May 1st  using short urls on twitter were really taking off (at least in my perception). Tinyurl was the default shortener used by twitter. bit.ly only had only gotten my […]