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AP ripe for disruption by Web platform
Watch live streaming video from disrupt at livestream.com Publish2 founder Scott Karp takes aim at the Associated Press with his Publish2 News Exchange during a presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Monday afternoon. In his talk (watch the video), he says the AP, not Google, is the enemy of newspapers. It’s a big,…
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Turning stoneware into schools
Here’s an Interesting effort by at least 24 Seagrove, N.C., potters to raise money for help Greg Mortenson build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are creating special pieces to sell on Aug. 14 to raise money for his Central Asia Institute (at least half the sales price of each piece will go to the…
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Toast of the journalism trade
In an industry hard hit by declining fortunes, layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts and dizzying org-chart reorganizations, there’s been something that has brought smiles and way-to-go comments from many a journalist. It’s the story, as Bristol Herald Courier Editor J. Todd Foster has put it, of the “little engine that could.” It’s the story of how…