During the course of the Future of News workshop, a number of interesting sites were mentioned. Here is a summary (I’ve also added some of others):
NewsTrust : Dan Gillmor, who is involved with this site, mentioned NewsTrust in his panel presentation. Our nonprofit, non-partisan project provides quality news feeds, news literacy tools and a trust network to help citizens make informed decisions about democracy. The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core principles of journalism, such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context. NewsCred : Currently in beta (mentioned here on TechCrunch). NewsCred is a digital newspaper that will give you all the world’s credible news in one place. We aggregate news from hundreds of mainstre...
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Clinton Grabs Attention from ObamaFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-08 21:10:57
I’ve blogged about the ratio of attention comparing Obama and Clinton, observing that Obama showed a steady increase against Clinton. The story is different now. In the latest analysis, we can see that Obama’s trend no longer holds and that Clinton is bouncing back (represented by the clear decay in the last 10 days).
Perhaps it is time to start showing the ratio the other way: Clinton/Obama.
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more Let the TechFest Begin!From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:39:23
It is almost exactly a year ago that I joined Microsoft. I was lucky enough with my timing that my first week here coincided with TechFest. TechFest is an expo put on by Microsoft Research to showcase new and ongoing innovation internally. What I remember most about that first week was how impressed I was at the diversity of work being carried out by MSR. While this event is an internal one, there is also a press day which takes some of these research projects and demonstrates them to the media...
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