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Help! What’s a great news problem to solve?

Rich Gordon’s got programmers but no project:
Between now and when the [next Medill innovation project] starts (Sept. 23), we have to decide what the focus of the project will be. In my experience with previous projects, the key is to come up with an interesting challenge or question for the students to explore.
Right now there [...]

New York Times reader out for Mac, still a bad idea

From Gizmodo:
Not so hot on the heels of its Microsoft-built Windows-based counterpart, the Times Reader beta has been made available for all members of NYTimes.com. Although a Silverlight install is required, it’s relatively painless and a small price to pay for Reader’s efficient news presentation and olde timey typefaces. There are no subscription fees for [...]

Remixing the web: users taking back control of their media

Lifehacker just posted a bit about a new Firefox extension that changes how Craigslist works. There are a mess of extensions for Firefox that do stuff like this. (My personal favorite blocks annoying flash and banner ads.)
Craigslist Image Preview adds a thumbnail of the image(s) within a listing on Craigslist without requiring you to [...]

AP, Microsoft to share member videos in tiny, useless web interface

The Associated Press announced it will allow AP members to post videos to their Online Video Network for sharing with others. Previously, the content supply was one-way, from the AP only. Microsoft and the AP are partners in the OVN, and will share ad revenues with members that supply the videos.
Unfortunately, it seems [...]