November 2011
68 posts
News.me: Looking for #7 →
newsme:
News.me is only a few months old as a standalone company. When we spun out of bitly in September and started building out the team, we had some hard decisions to make around hiring philosophy. We looked around at products that we admire - from startups like Instagram and Foursquare all the…
October 2011
52 posts
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News.me: Watching News Break →
Awesome work by @soniasaraiya putting this together:
newsme:
Here at News.me we’ve been looking at the best ways to get news to our users. One problem that we’ve been thinking about a lot is breaking news. What is breaking news in a world with 24-hour access to information? What kind of information should a breaking news update convey? Yesterday…
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“Some worried that the telegraph would be the death of newspapers, heretofore...”
– The rate of information transmission seems always to have been at odds with content producers’ understanding of “quality.”
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (via Findings.com)
“For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to...”
– Plato on Writing from The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (via Findings.com)
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“The universe computes its own destiny.”
– The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (via Findings.com)
James Gleick is the Werner Herzog of information science.
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