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The initial release of News Mixer was the result of eleven weeks of intensive research and development by graduate students at Northwestern University's Medill school of journalism and sponsorship from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The goal of the first release was to demonstrate different ways of thinking about how foster ...

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We presented News Mixer this week to Medill Facult, friends and to our partner, The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. People loved it. The internets were all a twitter about our project. News Mixer is your home for connection and interaction around news in Eastern Iowa. News Mixer adds a new ...

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I've setup a Google code project with my work on the CTA Accidents and Derailments project. I'm slowly plugging away at building a Django back-end to make data entry simple and open to everyone. If you are interested in contributing to this project in any way send me a message or ...

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My fellow hacker j-school classmate Brian Boyer and I spent our weekend putting together a web site called enviroVOTE. It tracked the election results and showed the envirominty-ness of the elected candidates. We lined-up candidates with endorsements each received from environmental interest groups and used a meter to show how ...

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I've been spending a lot of time recently working on a project for my "Advanced Multimedia Storytelling" class. I dove into a lot of different tools to throw together an interactive map-timeline flash app. I used a great little library called ModestMaps. You drop it into a flash project and ...

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