Wired has a cool article about how Digg is changing the way we look at news and what stories actually become news.
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The King of Kong is a new documentary about two grown men who fight it out for the world record for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Yes, this sounds awesome. A youtube trailer for the movie can be found below:
via pajiba
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The publisher Simon & Schuster partnered up with a company called MediaPredict, which uses a science called prediction market. It allows users to gamble with fake money on what books or movies will become successful, and it turns out that the predictions will be right with a 16% margin of error. This is different than focus groups, which have scientifically been shown to be only partially successful. The New Yorker has an article up about the science and how it works.
I know everyone has probably seen this already, but I’m compelled to post this Youtube video where an MSNBC journalist physically shreds the copy for a Paris Hilton story because she refuses to report on it. The irony is that the result of the act gives Paris Hilton even more publicity, since the video has been seen over 600,000 times on Youtube. You just can’t win!
via buzz machine
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This is awesome. An editor for The Birmingham News created a digital newsstand that uses a monitor to provide teasers for that day’s news. See a demonstration in the youtube video below:
via buzz machine
I’ve always been interested in the kind of journalism that leads to prisoners being released after investigations show they’re innocent. The American Journalism Review profiles Pete Shellem of Harrisburg’s Patriot-News who has already freed four prisoners who were wrongfully imprisoned.
Forgive me if this is old news to some people (no pun intended), but I just came across the history of how the news organization Reuters came to be. In the mid 1800s, when news organizations used telegraph systems, there were gaps in coverage where no telegraph lines existed. So the founders of Reuters decided to employ the use of carrier pigeons to speed up the process, and the organization was born. As a journalism fanatic, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard this story before.
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