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A Plea for Aggregation Standards

By Cyndi Stivers on CJR, May 8 –  “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Thus spake my high-school teacher, then nearing retirement, and if I remembered nothing else (besides his rampaging eyebrows and alarming amounts of nostril hair), I would not forget this. His point, at the time somewhat dispiriting, was that ideas are continually repackaged and [...]

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How and why you should do data journalism

By Mathew Ingram on Gigaom, Apr. 30 –  One of the big areas of focus for technology companies over the past year has been “big data” — in other words, the idea that there can be a lot of value in finding patterns in the massive quantities of user data and other information that a business generates. This has [...]

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Web journey complete, Financial Times switching off iOS app

By Robert Andrews on paidContent, May 1 –  The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 but left the iOS version usable by subscribers [...]