The online virtual news Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.
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Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW] Posted: 3 years ago by norequest
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news.
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Rupert Murdoch to charge to view News Corp's online news Posted: 4 months ago by topofall
News Corp chairman plans to charge readers of the websites of all his newspapers within the next 12 months.
Will this work? Doomed to failure I think.
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Meet Scott -- outside of Plime, the most important person in the news biz Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.
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Mine Explosion Kills 78, Rescue Efforts Continue Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
As of 3:30 pm PST, Russian officials say 78 bodies of miners have been recovered from the mine site explosion in Siberia, but fear casualities will increase.
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Man With One Leg Kills Sex Offender Dating His Ex-Wife Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
From story:
"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead."
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Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires) Posted: 3 years ago by susiesunshine
Silly & wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.
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Play The News Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience – imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.
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Bad News Robot Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?
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No Bad News: Good News Blog Posted: 3 years ago by kissmenow
"If you’re looking for some good news in these days of hurricanes, insurgency and high oil prices, go to goodnewsblog.com for links to stories that are uplifting but not maudlin." - Newsweek Blog Watch, Sep. 12, 2005
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Onion News Network Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
The Onion News Network has set the standard for globe-encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December, 1892. The network boasts channels in 171 languages and can be viewed in 4.2 billion households in 811 countries.
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Papers battle online news sites Posted: 3 years ago by thecritters
"All the news that's fit to print" was once the newspaper man's slogan. Now, with news-junkies turning increasingly to the net for their daily fix of world events, papers are beginning to feel the pinch.
*Includes video report on right of article*
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Iconographic News Headlines Posted: 2 years ago by Turtle
A real-time news "translation machine" representing appearing & disappearing information about our times. The news content is reduced to the most frequent headlines & their according keywords. The reduced news headlines are then visually translated in a dynamic pictogram language that is considered to be universal & instantly understandable. online users can add keywords to an icon to determine which news will be displayed.
"Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. the InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer!"
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Digg beats automated news aggregators to Rumsfeld story Posted: 3 years ago by Fanatic
In a demonstration of the speed of people-powered news aggregation, Diggers got the Rumsfeld resignation story to Page 1 in 3 minutes. It didn't show up on Google News for 20. Does this portend good things for Plime?
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Knowledge of current affairs little changed with emergence of cable, Internet news outlets Posted: 3 years ago by Bornbad
Americans' knowledge of national and international affairs has changed little in two decades despite the emergence of 24-hour cable news and the Internet as major news sources.
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Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets to Injured Soldier. Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.
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Political bias in the news Posted: 1 year ago by lynxears
Or, why McCain is getting hosed in the press.
"Before answering the question, indulge us in noting that the subject of ideological bias in the news media is a drag. The people who care about it typically come at the issue with scalding biases of their own. Any statement journalists make on the subject can and will be used against them. So the incentive is to make bland and guarded statements. Even honest ones, meanwhile, will tend to strike partisans as evasive or self-delusional."
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Uncle Jay explains the news Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
Funny, Emmy-winning Uncle Jay thinks it’s really, really important for today’s news to be understood by today’s innocent, ignorant and immature minds.
Also children.
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Police To Investigate News Corp Phone Tapping Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Following the revelations about phone tapping by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag. Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.
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News site introduces user recommendation Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A news aggregation site will start letting its users influence the placement of articles by voting on items they like or dislike.
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Top 10 PR Blunders of 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by deepcleanfun
The year 2007 was full of bad news for some, and the bad handling of bad news. Here's a good overview of the worst of the worst.
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