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Take the poll and read the article by Chris Leckness of mobilitysite.
Thank you, Mark Meyhew (aka TwitterTutor) for sending this link via twitter.
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Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]

Don’t send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!
As one editor said to me, “Who really reads an entire ‘Year in Review?’” For print, stick to lots of photos and pithy cutlines. For online sites, JibJab creates great examples of what readers/viewers want. Journalists don’t have to make the videos glib. Make them entertaining and […]

Some quick hits:
Wired Magazine

RedEye

Guardian Unlimited

Michigan Daily

The New York Times
Columbia Spectator
Maclean’s
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I’m really liking the website, topix, which gathers national, world and “hyperlocal” news.

Topix is considered an aggregator and relies on bot-aggregating software and real-live human editors when it can. The more they can rely on human editors, the better their local pages will be. They are seeking editors.
Here’s an example of

After 28 years of wild and crazy “news” entertainment, Weekly World News is ending its print publication with its Aug. 27, 2007, issue. It will continue to publish online.
It looks as though updates on “Bat Boy,” a regular feature, will not continue online. We’ll miss you Bat Boy.
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NowPublic was launched in 2005.
In their own words:
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had […]

Friday morning, I was saddened to learn that the majority shareholders of the Dow Jones, publishers of The Wall Street Journal, have made plans to sit down with Rupert Murdoch and negotiate the sale of a high standard publication.
It’s said that one reason for this turnaround is the family’s decision to help the […]

My absence Wednesday was due to being outside of an internet-accessible area. 
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O.K., call me late to dinner.
Though I bumped into this site a few months ago, I only checked it out now.

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This site is similar to marumushi’s newsmap in that is visualizes the news.
With marumushi’s model, the more stories on a particular topic, the larger […]