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• Is the economy really this bad?

  This screenshot of yesterday's home page of CBS.com pretty much says it all. We're not sure if this is a mistake or what. But really, is this the answer? [...]
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  Fetched: March 24, 2009, 8:53pm EDT
  

• Roundup of We Media Miami session: In search of a new kind of story

  For those who were unable to join the "Storytellers Caucus" at We Media this year, here's some of what you missed: I started with a brief history of how our traditional ideas of story have proved a remarkable tool for making order out of the chaos of the world and our' [...]
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  Fetched: March 04, 2009, 9:10pm EST
  

• Introducing Footnote Pages

  It's live. Try it. [...]
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  Fetched: September 10, 2008, 6:20pm EDT
  

• We're launching something at TechCrunch 50 today

  Around 2:15 Pacific Time, CEO Russ Wilding, will be on the TechCrunch 50 stage to launch our latest project. Anyone will be able to kick the tires of this new thing immediately after the talk. Watch live coverage: [...]
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  Fetched: September 10, 2008, 6:20pm EDT
  

• We launching something at TechCrunch 50 today

  Around 2:15 Pacific Time, CEO Russ Wilding, will be on the TechCrunch 50 stage to launch our latest project. Anyone will be able to kick the tires of this new thing immediately after the talk. Watch live coverage: [...]
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  Fetched: September 10, 2008, 4:53pm EDT
  

• Why I hate Flickr

  Excerpted from a Flickr email sent to me today... [...]
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  Fetched: August 06, 2008, 9:07pm EDT
  

• CNN: Vets pay tribute to fallen comrades at virtual Vietnam wall

  Footnote.com ended up on the home page of CNN this afternoon (then migrated to the Tech section). It was an unexpected surprise, which kept us on our toes. ... [...]
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  Fetched: April 02, 2008, 2:06am EDT
  

• First 48 hours of The Wall

  It's been both surprising and humbling to observe how people have interacted with The Wall since it's announcement on Wednesday. After discovering some issues with our clustering providers and optimizing code on the site, we've been able to keep the site humming. It's not easy to quickly serve up a [...]
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  Fetched: March 29, 2008, 12:04am EDT
  

• The Wall on CNN

  The Situation Room's Abbi Tatton does a great job of summarizing the idea of The Wall. [...]
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  Fetched: March 27, 2008, 10:05pm EDT
  

• Free Vietnam photos from Footnote and The National Archives

  As part of the release of The Wall, Chris and Footnote.com are going to be making 1 million Vietnam era photos and documents from The National Archives for free. Here's... [...]
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  Fetched: March 27, 2008, 12:06pm EDT
  

• Launching The Wall

  Today Chris and his team at Footnote announced with The National Archives the launch of their latest project: The Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It's a near full-size image - 20 gigabytes - where people can attach photographs, leave comments and... [...]
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  Fetched: March 26, 2008, 9:07pm EDT
  

• Footnote goes first click free

  Free. Free. Free. On Footnote.com, you can now view any Premium image that has been Spotlighted or part of a recent Member discovery. Premium images are historic photographs, documents or newspapers newly digitized from The National Archives and others. Here's a photo just discovered from our... [...]
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  Fetched: March 16, 2008, 1:03am EDT
  

• Speaking at We Media today: Start thinking like an anthropologist

  I (Chris) just finished participating at the Developer's World panel. We could distill the message of that presentation (and our last eight years of focus) to this: Start thinking like an anthropologist. If you want to create the next big thing, it needs to connect with people in a powerful way. To [...]
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  Fetched: February 28, 2008, 1:03pm EST
  

• At We Media Miami today

  Chris is blogging today and speaking tomorrow at 9:15 am at the Storer Auditorium at the University of Miami. Updates (ET) 3:03 pm: Putting more decisions in the hands of patients requires helping them understand at least the right questions to ask, according to the cardiologist speaking, that's empowerment. 3:01 pm: Lots of [...]
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  Fetched: February 27, 2008, 4:01pm EST
  

• Tapping into the Power of Participation

  Here are the slides from my (Chris's) part of Sunday's NFAIS panel. It was a rare delight to have an instant rapport with such talented and diverse thinkers: Bryan "always on" Alexander from NITLE, [...]
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  Fetched: February 27, 2008, 3:03am EST
  

• NY Times launches newspaper archive viewer: TimesMachine

  The New York Times has quietly launched TimesMachine - a way to browse every news page from its beginning in 1851 to 1922. The TimesMachine has been unavailable this morning today, but those who had a chance to see it tell us you can mouse over stories and have [...]
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  Fetched: February 26, 2008, 12:06pm EST
  

• The Vietnam Wall and the networked story

  We'll have more to talk about soon. [...]
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  Fetched: February 22, 2008, 1:02am EST
  

• Speaking at We Media and NFAIS this week

  I (Chris) will be participating in two panels this week. The first is Sunday afternoon at NFAIS 2008 Conference in Philadelphia. I'll be following Dr. David Weinberger - from Harvard's Berkman Center and author of Small Things Loosely Joined and... [...]
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  Fetched: February 22, 2008, 1:02am EST
  

• Footnote frees 1 million historic documents and images

  Footnote.com and Chris have published 25MM historical images from The National Archives and others in their first year. To celebrate, they have made 1 million of them freely accessible. Registered Footnoters can save any image to their Gallery or annotate people, places, dates and text. You can also immerse yourself in [...]
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  Fetched: February 06, 2008, 2:04am EST
  

• Upcoming Keynote Address at PSP 2008 in DC

  A quick update: Chris will be giving the kickoff address to the Professional Scholarly Publishing Annual 2008 Conference tomorrow (5 February) on 7 Rules of Social Media: How People & the Internet Are Changing the Nature of Information and What You Can Learn From It. Jerome Groopman, M.D., Professor [...]
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  Fetched: February 06, 2008, 12:04am EST
  

• Flashback to the CueCat: Google tries barcodes in print ads

  It's not something we talk about. Until today, we never blogged about it. And since 2000, we have been trying to figure out how we could have stopped it - the CueCat. (Cue harpsichord strings for flashback... [...]
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  Fetched: January 29, 2008, 7:01pm EST
  

• Newspaper ad sales decline at a quickening pace

  According to Alan Mutter of Newsosaur, newspaper print advertising is tracking at a 10-year low. And when you factor for inflation the story gets much worse:

  "If you subtract this year?s likely $42.7 billion in print-ad revenues from the constant-dollar value of the sales a decade ago, the difference of [...]

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  Fetched: November 21, 2007, 3:10pm EST
  

• Twitter used by news outlets and emergency services during California fires

  As the fires in southern California rage out of control, the LA Times and KPBS - ven the Los Angeles Fire Department ? have started posting real-time updates and public service announcements not only on their sites but also on Twitter. [...]
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  Fetched: October 24, 2007, 7:05pm EDT
  

• Japanese air target anlaysis

  We just got finished posting 7,800 pages of US Japanese Air Target Analyses (subscription required) for the first time on the web. It makes for interesting reading. It reviews the Allied bombing strategy in aerial attacks on Japanese targets during World War II. It includes mission reports, details about targets, [...]
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  Fetched: October 17, 2007, 8:08pm EDT
  

• 7 Rules for Social Media

  A few weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation titled "We Media: How Audiences Are Changing The Future of News and Information" (PDF) at the Fall Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers in Arlington, Virgina.

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  Fetched: October 11, 2007, 3:05pm EDT
  

• The Networked Journalism Summit

  Thanks to the kindness of Daylife, I, Chris, have been sitting next to Jeff Jarvis all day in their Soho loft. Jeff always impresses me with his energy. He types or talks or brainstorms non-stop. On his way out he let me know that the The Networked Journalism Summit has [...]
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  Fetched: September 14, 2007, 6:14pm EDT
  

• Chris giving keynote address at ASIDIC Fall 2007 Meeting

  Chris is off to Arlington, VA to join a panel discussion and give a keynote address, on "We Media: How Audiences Are Changing The Future of News and Information,"at this week's ASIDIC gathering. If... [...]
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  Fetched: September 08, 2007, 3:13am EDT
  

• Traffic to online news sites up dramatically but revenues show signs of slowing

  In May the Newspaper Association of America study looked promising. It showed the audience for newspaper web sites growing at nearly twice the rate of the overall online audience (5.3% increase compared to 2.7% overall increase for the general internet audience). Friday's release was also upbeat saying that advertising expenditures... [...]
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  Fetched: September 03, 2007, 10:13pm EDT
  

• Google News starts hosting news services content

  Google News is looking to clear up a sea of redundant wire stories by directly providing content from The Associated Press, Britain?s Press Association, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year.... [...]
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  Fetched: September 01, 2007, 3:13pm EDT
  

• Thomas Jefferson: Citizen journalist

  There is no master plan of History. Events happen, we witness and, later, we try to make sense of them. When tragic or momentous events do occur, we often seek to forgo patience for prescience. We want it all to make sense now. We want order and meaning restored. In an age [...]
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  Fetched: July 19, 2007, 1:12am EDT
  

• James Surowiecki On What Crowds Can and Cannot Do

  Jay Rosen's PressThink has posted an interview with James Surowiecki. His book, “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations” (Random House, 2004) was a best seller, which has greatly popularized... [...]
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  Fetched: July 10, 2007, 3:13pm EDT
  

• Boyd & Buffett: Newspapers are dead already

  Stowe Boyd updates the continuing bad news and bleak outlook for the newspaper industry. Some lowlights:

  We should stop wringing our hands for the moribund local newspapers. They are going under. Period. Full stop... Journalists will, yes, have to get other jobs, or figure out how to make it online.

  From... [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• The Investigation of William Randolph Hearst

  Despite working exclusively in the web for that last decade, it's hard to escape the love of the newspaper business. Stepping into the newsroom on that first day, we met colorful characters face-to-face. You know what we mean. Newsrooms attract a different breed - iconoclasts all. There are the tough, smart-talking [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• One Rat Short

  When the crisp winter morning here in Heber, UT is shattered by the screeching whine of Gulfstreams and Learjets, you know it must be Sundance. I (Chris) actually love jets. And, living just outside Park City, UT, the annual film festival provides a welcome diversion. Though I didn't run into many stars [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Chris Anderson's vanishing point theory of news

  Good metaphors are important because they can help you think about a problem in unexpected ways. The news business has been struggling to find new metaphors for what they do for years. From "computer-assisted reporting" to "civic journalism" to "p2p journalism," the right metaphors have eluded them. Chris Anderson, author [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• 5 lessons learned from Footnote

  After doing my fair share of preaching on this blog for the last five years, I (Chris) now have firsthand knowledge of at least one thing a few days after Footnote.com's launch: On the web you don't control your message, but you're welcome participate in the conversation you've started. Here [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Proud to announce the launch of Footnote - and first content partnership with the National Archives

  Today Footnote.com has launched. What is Footnote? It's a place where you can explore and annotate millions of original historic documents, upload your own images or write about what you've found. [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Blogging from the newsroom

  Blogging has emerged from a distinctly different world than journalism and plays by different rules. Yet, newspapers have become infatuated with blogs. They offer a quick and informal way to communicate with readers while opening the potential for reaching new audiences. American Journalism Review offers a close look at the vigorous [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Powazek: A Tale of Three Communities

  Derek Powazek writes about magazines - and most other established media's - reluctance to partner with their audience:

  The online world has created a culture of creation among ordinary people. Meanwhile, magazines are still partying like it's 1899. Writers write, readers read, and never the twain shall meet. Simply put, this [...]

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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Don't write, build something

  Why haven't we written anything on this blog in five months? [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Buffett: Newspapers are "a business in permanent decline"

  Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger offer a bleak outlook on the newspaper business during the shareholder Q&A at the recent Berkshire Hathaway 2006 shareholders’ meeting. Buffett says, "It’s hard to make money buying a business that’s in permanent decline. If anything, the decline is accelerating. Newspaper readers are heading into [...]
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  Fetched: June 06, 2007, 2:08pm EDT