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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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(Centralized) URL shorteners considered harmful
In late April i started writing this post and it was lying around unfinished all these months. The impetus for the post were a number of discussions i had whether URL shorteners are a good thing or not. (My position was along the lines of this BoingBoing post by Cory Doctorow) Given the (recent) developments […]
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Hamburg Declaration Wording differs from Hamburger Erklärung
Last Thursday the “Hamburger Erklärung” has been presented to the EU commision as a petition now called “Hamburg Declaration”. Seemingly there was a “signing ceremony” at a joint conference of the European Publishers Council (EPC) and tne World association of Newspapers (WAN) on June 26th. Hopefully all these very important men didn’t convene only for […]