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Tribune redesign, newspaper salvation, in the works
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Looks like the new Tribune editor, Gerould Kern, is working on "saving" the newspaper. The reported redesign takes the news off the front page and buries it in the second section. Whats more important for the front page of a newspaper?
"Consumer-oriented and entertainment features."
According to the article at Crain's ChicagoBusiness.com, ...
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Old fashion democracy with the Internet
Monday, July 21st, 2008I've often wondered what would happen if we could put the legislative branch of the government online and let citizens vote on legislation directly. Get rid of all those layers of representation that we built up and have a true democratic system.
While that may never happen (and maybe should never ...
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Free the data and let us figure out what to do with it
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008The UK government's 'Power of Information Task Force' is holding a competition for the best way to make government data available to citizens. They are offering a 22,000 pound prize/grant to make the best idea happen. Whats really cool is that a bunch of UK agencies published new APIs to ...
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