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. picked by hisidea 11 months ago

To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favor of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of Internet innovation. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

You may not know this, but there are actually a number of great references available to you that aren’t Wikipedia. Now, don’t get me wrong - I love Wikipedia, too. Whenever I first begin a project I almost always go and overview it through Wikipedia. It’s a great introduction to a subject, also connecting you easily to other related ideas, people and places. picked by sandman2 11 months ago

News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast. picked by TheStep 1 year ago

This flickr search tool is just plain sweet, very quick and minimal, uses ajax to serve results faster. Also searches only creative commons if selected, so you can find images to use on your website. picked by Neticulis 4 months ago

Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news. picked by norequest 1 year ago

Another different approach to searching Flickr for images. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

A news aggregation site will start letting its users influence the placement of articles by voting on items they like or dislike. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A photographer from Iceland wrote a post on Flickr on the fact that a London-based company stole and sold photos she had posted on Flickr. People commented in support. Flickr's response? The post was removed. picked by kissmenow 1 year ago

Check out these news photos from Reuters. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

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? picked by bernardblack 4 weeks ago

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. picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago

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. picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago

Site is filled with legal stories, lawsuits, photos and more. Most articles have links to pdf files of legal filings. It is basically a news wire for lawyers and those interested in legal cases.

Includes lawsuits such as one where a land owner is suing FEMA and Homeland Security for failure to pay rent on his land since June of 2007 picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. picked by LatueOfStiberty 2 years ago

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. picked by susiesunshine 1 year ago

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." picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago

This software will flag questionable lines in Wikipedia entries...
...I find it funny that Fox News is telling this story when one of those "dodgy" edits was traced back to them. picked by DemureArt 11 months ago

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 ... read full post picked by Turtle 9 months ago

tlovesd posted an article a while back on the best wildlife photos of 2006. Here's a companion article on the top news photos, most of which are guaranteed to make you say "WTF?" picked by Wingnut 2 years ago