August 2010

Yikes, Joel Kramer is beating the bushes for funding original journalism at MinnPost and then along comes BringMeTheNews and gets a $1 million investment for a news aggregating site centered on Minnesota. Public Journalism Network Reminder: The media industry’s revenue problems do not equate to any crisis within journalism itself. Also, aggregation is totally 2008, […]

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Panoramic: My kids and my cousin and her kids swinging on the swing tree at Mall of America. [See bigger photo.] This was my first attempt using the Pano app, which automatically stitches together multiple photos into a panoramic photo. I had been looking for an app for panoramas, and I saw a photo Blois

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“Announcing Hip Pocket Records. For the 50 million kids who want their music portable, low priced and groovy.” The record is cool, sure, but peep that comb, and that corduroy! OMG. More photos here at Pacific Standard including the l’il record player. [via nevver:]

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None. Minnesota Republican Party deputy chairman Michael Brodkorb, when asked what the chances are the governor’s race will be positive, from “Dayton’s call for a ‘cease-fire’ in campaign attack ads gets immediate GOP response charging ‘hypocrisy’,” by Doug Grow (via minnpost)

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You can’t copyright facts. Rick Kupchella, Founder & CEO of Bring Me the News. Quote from David Brauer’s post “Why did Jim Dolan and Lynn Casey invest a million bucks in BringMeTheNews?”

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soupsoup: Blogga please. Haha! I loves the internets. So, if this IS totally fake, that’s fine with me, because it was funny, and well done, and I laughed. It probably should have been distributed via a sit-com, or HBO special, or CollegeHumor.com, or something where it’s okay to be fiction. But this type of thing

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