links for 2009-09-17
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'Google told newspaper publishers it is implementing an infrastructure extension to its Google Checkout service, for implementation sometime within the next 12 months, that may enable news sites and other publishers whose content is located via Google to receive payment for that content from users.'
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'With a hunger for explanatory guidance amid the raging storm of Web news flashes, a journalist stresses context to attract digital users.'
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'reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR).'
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'Glenn Beck has yet to deny raping and murdering a young girl in 1990. In fact, rather than deny it, he has decided to avoid denying it by trying at several levels to shut down the website that suggests he might have and points out he hasn’t denied it.'
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'It has x-height of 3 pixels, it is italic, inspired by old masters and most important – made by hand. You must not look too closely, because colors get visible. It’s work in progress.'
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'In the Fall of 2007, tens of thousands of small arctic geese called Pacific brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) decided not to go south for the winter.'
For these long-haul migratory birds, it was a dramatic choice — they usually spend the cold months munching their favorite eel grass in the waters off Mexico's Baja peninsula. But changes in Earth's climate have so affected them that the barren windswept lagoons of western Alaska are looking more and more appealing.
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'Here are thirty of the best CSS practices that will keep you writing solid CSS and avoiding some costly mistakes.'
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'Here are some blogs and website that provide great information for information designers, including how-to articles, visualization showcases and galleries, and other resources. Some even include tools for creating your own visualizations.'
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'The ability of anyone to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and sharing news and information is seen as one of the big shifts in journalism over the past 10 years. But a growing body of research suggests that the advent of participatory journalism, or user-generated content (UGC), has done little to change the way the media works.'
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Latest military-industrial-complex complex: EMP attack on the electrical grid (cool graphic) / #tech'The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is pushing Congress for authority to require power companies to take protective steps, which could include building metal shields around sensitive computer equipment.'

