Online News Squared ™

Chicago Tribune Magazine on “Holovaty’s twin passions – reporting and problem-solving – the unexpected intersection of journalism and computer code.” Here.

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+ Google News has new filtering options at the “cluster” level that let you see blogs or local stories. Here. + Another Google wannabee (started by former Googlers) with an even more ridiculous name — cuil. Here. ( Just don’t accidentally mistype and visit culi.com, a nice little Italian. . . .porn site).  + NotTheLaTimes.com. [...]

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+ Transitioning back from a week out of town on vacation (a curious undertaking on several levels for someone who is for the first time ever officially unemployed). + Google News going to get Dugg? TechCrunch says Google and Digg close to finalizing an acquistion. Here. + Star Tribune launches Data Center. NYT says it’ll [...]

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Adrian and crew add two new cities (Charlotte and Philly) to  microlocal data emporium Everyblock. One of the inaugural members of the Adrian Holovaty Cloning Lab at Northwestern ruminates on what might be next, halfway through his incubation period. A couple Mama T cheap shots for good measure. Coming next, toilet paper rationing? And what [...]

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Nifty new Facebook application from the gang over at The TakeAway lets you buy and trade stock in potential VP candidates. Here. Google Snooze? “[W]hile news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in [...]

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