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Techmeme is probably the most well-known way to find the hottest tech industry news. It uses a combination of human editorial input and algorithms to find the posts that people are talking about and linking to. My favorite thing about Techmeme is that it has an excerpt of the main story along with links to many of the other bloggers who are discussing the same topic. It’s easy to get a quick understanding of the story, while getting a look at how different people are reacting to the news. These reactions can be particularly fascinating for some of the more controversial stories. I use Techmeme to keep up with the news that all of the rest of the bloggers are discussing so that when I go out with my geeky friends in the evening, I’ll be ready to talk about the latest news.

The Future Journalist Is…

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We identified specific digitally-oriented skills and traits a future journalist would need. These include being:

• a multimedia storyteller: using the right digital skills and tools for the right story at the right time.
• a community builder: facilitating conversation among various audiences, being a community manager.
• a trusted pointer: finding and sharing great content, within a beat(s) or topic area(s); being trusted by others to filter out the noise.
• a blogger and curator: has a personal voice, is curator of quality web content and participant in the link economy.
• able to work collaboratively: knowing how to harness the work of a range of people around him/her — colleagues in the newsroom; experts in the field; trusted citizen journalists; segments of the audience, and more.

Saturday, February 6 – 12:00 PM (Noon)

Triple Feature: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, 2001, Warner Bros., 208 min. Director Peter Jackson adapts J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy. The world's future rests on the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. With Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen. Enjoy the entire epic with back-to-back marathon screenings, including extended versions of I and II. Breaks for Hobbit snacks and Middle Earth rituals are built into the schedule.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, 2002, Warner Bros., 223 min. Dir. Peter Jackson. Approximate start time 4:00 PM.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, 2003, Warner Bros., 201 min. Dir. Peter Jackson. Approximate start time 8:15 PM.

Think you could sit through it?

Probe data (following the bread-crumb trail of GPS signals registered by and locating your phone in space) can best be thought of as a change detection generator. When roads are closed for construction, probe data will immediately reflect the situation. When new roads are opened, probe data will immediately reflect this change by providing traces of movement in areas previously empty of such traces. If a traffic artery has been converted to one-way, probe data will immediately reveal the absence of the previously normal two-directional traffic. While probe data is not the sole panacea for improving map revision practices, it is a mechanism that will take much of the guess work out of where Google should deploy field collection assets, like Street View, to create improved map data.

Of course, the law of large numbers may work to Google’s disadvantage, especially if a large number of users object to having their paths tracked and saved in a Google data center. Even today, TomTom/TeleAtlas, whose MapShare program benefits from probe data collected from users who have opted-in to the service, strips the first two and last two minutes of travel from the probe paths they capture, to provide some degree of anonymity to the contributors of their data. While the data is contributed anonymously, it is clear that the only person leaving 6 Sesame Street each morning and returning to 6 Sesame Street each evening is likely a resident of that address. We will have to see how this issue plays out, but if it plays out in Google’s favor, it will be a game changer, especially when added to the other practices they use to gather map data.

Fascinating read on how our GPS devices relay info back to the major players, and how this information is what they will need to get ahead in the mapping game.

Sidenote, I've talked about this "pinging" before and wasn't aware that it has a formal name: "probe data"

I've highlighted two interesting paragraphs here, but there is a lot more on the original post.

I do the news segment, coming in at about the 95 minute mark.

One company that, in theory, should have an easier job is Sony, who emerged far and away as the HDTV brand most synonymous with high quality (43% cited this brand on an unaided basis); trailed by Samsung (11%); Panasonic (5%); Vizio (4%); Phillips and LG (3%); Toshiba, RCA and Sharp (2%); and Magnavox, Mitsubishi, JVC and Zenith (1%).