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By William M. Hartnett on May 15, 2008 in daily links | 2 Comments

Did Twitter Really ‘Outshine’ the Mainstream Press? - ReadWriteWeb
“(Twitter) does breaking news, and it does that very well - in many cases these days better than the mainstream press.” Too bad so many in the traditionally depth-focused news media are now placing big bets on breaking news, where they’re most vulnerable.
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A Backyard Post programming note: Our man in Buenos Aires »

By William M. Hartnett on May 15, 2008 in backyard post, work | 0 Comments

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Neighborhood mapping help from abroad. Mapping thousands of neighborhoods is hard work. So hard, in fact, that we recently outsourced a very small portion of the workload to Backyard Post’s senior Argentina-based polo correspondent.

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