Newspaper Club

Makes me wonder how easy it would be for other existing digital presses to become on-demand for anyones use. If priced and designed properly this may help save the presses.

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Congress's Travel Tab Swells

Our tax dollars:

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

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Malcolm is wrong

Seth Godin fires back at Malcolm Gladwell's review of Chris Anderson's new book Free, which is conveniently available for $17.81 on Amazon.

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There's always room for Jello

I try to do something similar about once a week. Instead of going to work I'll camp out in one of my favorite coffeehouses. I'm still "working" but I'm doing so out of context which usually leads to seeing things differently.

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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson

Some interesting points made here about Free.

Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube will lose close to half a billion dollars this year. If it were a bank, it would be eligible for TARP funds.

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Michael Jackson's death and its lessons for online journalists covering breaking news

So basically mainstream news needs use Twitter to acknowledge rumors while they're fact checking, okay, but who follows mainstream news on Twitter? I tried to follow CNN and NYTimes but it's too chatty. I actually GO to those sites regularly to see what they're reporting on. Twitter is the grapevine and mainstream news has never really fit on my vine.

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Search User Interfaces

This looks like a promising academic look into search UI by Marti A. Hearst.

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A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa

Great introduction to RDFa by Mark Birbeck.

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