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New York Times Wants to Be the Pandora of News

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The New York Times is beginning to roll out an experimental new approach to personalized news that the Poynter Institute compares to Pandora’s approach to suggesting music based on what users say they like. The paper is trying to provide a more social news experience that includes not only personalization but also a reader reputation system and new approach to commenting. So far, most of the new additions have been happening behind the scenes—rethinking how to do recommendations and tweaking algorithms. When the toolbar for TimesPeople, a simple social network launched in 2008, disappeared this week, Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman suspected something biggest was in store and reached out to chief technology officer Marc Frons who explained some upcoming features.

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Posted 9 months ago
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Nissan NV200 Selected as New York City’s Taxi of Tomorrow

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission selected Nissan to design and supply the next-generation ‘Taxi of Tomorrow.’

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Posted 9 months ago
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The first image of bin Laden that the White House may show us is ‘bloody and gruesome, with a bullet wound to his head above his left eye.’ If it’s released, this is the image that will instantly supplant every other account of Sunday’s raid as the iconic representation of America’s moment of triumph over its most wanted enemy. Is that what we want—the official equivalent of the Saddam hanging video? Did we learn nothing from the past decade about the overwhelming power of crude images of violence to define and polarize our historical moment?
Philip Gourevitch on why we should not release the bin Laden photographs (via newyorker)

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Soup: Finally! A draft of Qatar's new media law

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We’ve been talking about it for years, and God help me, I’m starting to get my hopes up.

That’s because today, Qatar-based Arabic daily newspaper Al-Sharq published details of a draft media law proposed by the Ministry of Culture’s Department of Communications.

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Reblogged nationaljournal: PHOTO OF THE DAY: A man holds a portrait of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak during a protest against Mubarak’s regime, following Friday prayers at the Beyazit square in Istanbul on Friday. Turkey’s vocal support for a regime change in Egypt reflects the country’s quest for leadership in the Middle East, where it is often lauded as an example that Islam and democracy can co-exist. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) Zoom Image

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: A man holds a portrait of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak during a protest against Mubarak’s regime, following Friday prayers at the Beyazit square in Istanbul on Friday. Turkey’s vocal support for a regime change in Egypt reflects the country’s quest for leadership in the Middle East, where it is often lauded as an example that Islam and democracy can co-exist. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)

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Reblogged soupsoup: Reviewing “The Daily”: What are people saying about Rupert Murdoch’s new $30M iPad newspaper? Photograph by: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Image, VS Zoom Image

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Reviewing “The Daily”: What are people saying about Rupert Murdoch’s new $30M iPad newspaper?

Photograph by: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Image, VS

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"Gulf start-ups need to change a "copycat mentality" of trying to replicate successful businesses in the West"

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E-Books to Join The New York Times Best-Seller List

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In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing, The New York Times said on Wednesday that it would publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year.

The lists will be compiled from weekly data from publishers, chain bookstores, independent booksellers and online retailers, among other sources.

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#BQ from #FITCH Dubai picked up GOLD at this year's WPPED CREAM AWARDS (#WPP) http://tinyurl.com/38as9rc (see: www.bq.com) (@FITCHdesign)

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The New York Times and Betaworks Launching Social News Site News.me

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The New York Times is developing a personalized, social news service, News.me.

The venerable newspaper is partnering with pseudo-incubator Betaworks to bring the product to market. The site is currently nothing more than an inscrutable honeycomb logo, but Betaworks CEO John Borthwick told the newspaper that News.me has already been in development for six months and is expected to launch publicly by the end of 2010.

» via Mashable

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The 2011 REBRAND 100® Global Awards

Marty Neumeier, Director of Transformation at Liquid Agency has been invited by REBRAND to be one of ten jurors selected every year for the annual REBRAND 100 Global Awards.

REBRAND is the first, and only expert-led, global resource for case studies and programs focused on effective brand transformations. It has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, FastCompany, Yahoo! Finance, other publications and various media.

The REBRAND 100® Global Awards is the highest recognition for excellence in brand repositioning – and the first and only competition of its kind. Businesses, brand strategists, and various organizations have come to value knowing they are among the best in the world when it comes to effectively meeting strategic goals and building loyalty and strong connections with their targets.

Global organizations, Fortune 50 corporations, small businesses, accomplished entrepreneurs, respected nonprofit organizations, cities, and renowned universities from around the world are regularly represented in the REBRAND 100 Global Awards. Past winners have been based in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Italy, Lebanon, Romania, Australia, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the US.

Once a year, an esteemed panel of international design and business leaders is selected to jury the competition, with the ultimate goal of showcasing the most effective brand transformations to the world via RERAND.com and credible broadcast media. “I’m thrilled to be a part of this competition,” said Marty Neumeier. “Branding and design has been my passion for so many years, and to be selected as a juror along with nine other peers from around the world is really a honor for me.”

See this year’s juror panel at: www.rebrand.com / @REBRANDing

Source: Liquid Agency e-mailer

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Tens of millions to go ‘mobile’ Reblogged techspotlight: Tens of millions of Indian mobile-phone users could gain a gateway to the internet through a cloud-based service developed by Hewlett-Packard’s research division in the country. HP Labs’ SiteOnMobile allows access to the internet using only SMS text messages and voice commands – potentially opening it to India’s 600 million users of mostly low-end mobile phones. By issuing commands to so-called TaskLets – the servers of which are based in the cloud – users can perform tasks such as checking the status of an order, requesting a quotation or booking a doctor’s appointment. (Source: Net-by-text-message service could bring millions online in India | Technology | guardian.co.uk)

Tens of millions to go ‘mobile’

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Tens of millions of Indian mobile-phone users could gain a gateway to the internet through a cloud-based service developed by Hewlett-Packard’s research division in the country.

HP Labs’ SiteOnMobile allows access to the internet using only SMS text messages and voice commands – potentially opening it to India’s 600 million users of mostly low-end mobile phones.

By issuing commands to so-called TaskLets – the servers of which are based in the cloud – users can perform tasks such as checking the status of an order, requesting a quotation or booking a doctor’s appointment.

(Source: Net-by-text-message service could bring millions online in India | Technology | guardian.co.uk)

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The Senate is considering a bill that would give President Obama unprecedented new powers to control the internet in a national emergency. The bill, introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) would give the White House what some have called an internet “kill switch” allowing the president to shut down specific websites or whole portions of the internet
The U.S. government’s internet ‘kill switch’: A bill currently before the Senate could give the president “absolute control” of the internet

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Reblogged techspotlight: Film classification takes to the web

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Film classification takes to the web

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