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My post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. But the project also shows why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local audience. The biggest danger with news aggregation is that instead of ...

WordPress is celebrating a 6th anniversary today.

A new WordPress theme based on the Twilight movie.

I am one of the 240,000 people with free tickets attending President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol next week. And like the other 2 million or so people descending upon Washington, D.C., this weekend for the festivities, I am counting on my cell phone ...

The troubled 60-year-old electronics chain tried its best to survive bankruptcy, but to no avail; now, it will liquidate its merchandise and close all 567 remaining stores.Bloomberg reports that Circuit City Stores Inc. has hired a quartet of liquidators to sell off its existing merchandise, pending a green light from ...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The liquidation of Circuit City Stores (CCTYQ) may end up being a tough sell for the company itself and is sure to carry impacts for its competitors, retail consultants said. The second largest electronics retailer behind Best Buy Co. (BBY) may not be able to draw foot ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Web search leader Google Inc took another step on Wednesday toward direct competition with Microsoft Corp by recruiting IT resellers to market its Web-based applications to business clients. From the end of March, authorized resellers will be able to sell, customize and support premium versions of ...

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down and Carol Bartz has taken the reins as the company's new CEO. Most hope that she can fix Yahoo and return it to the place of dominance it once enjoyed. Or failing that, at least move it back into favor with shareholders. This ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores <CCTYQ.PK> concluded the first day of an auction and said it was still in talks with bidders regarding a potential sale of the company or certain assets. Lawyer Ian Fredericks of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. which represents Circuit City, made the announcement ...

The  U.S. military is making plans to  repeal its "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay and lesbian service  members. President  Obama announced plans to change the 17-year-old policy in his State of the Union  Address, but Congress makes the final decision. Joint  Chiefs of ...

There is a new version of my Journalized theme available. This version, 2.7.2, fixes a couple of bugs raised by users. A couple of 2.7 only dependencies have now been fixed. A problem with versions of PHP less than 5 was fixed. The theme is now translatable and comes with Russian built in ...

WordCampUK is looking for a venue for this year's event.

The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be. Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some like-minded pioneers. That’s how ...

Entering 2009, the future of media is undoubtedly a quandary, with no end of head-scratching across the industry. As with everything these days, it seems that it all comes down to radically changing economics. There are way too many conversations about the future of media, news, journalism, etc. going on ...