Hacking journalism in Berlin

Journalists, designers and developers worked on creating new things at a recent Hacktoberfest event in Berlin, organized by the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.

Sitting in the back of our main hackspace at Betahaus, watching team after team get up and present their work, it dawned on me how awesome it was to spend four days seeing people with disparate skill sets truly collaborate around building something.

More on the projects themselves here and via the project wiki; and code at GitHub.

via MediaShift Idea Lab . 3 Key Reflections From Knight-Mozillas Hacktoberfest in Berlin | PBS.

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The Sad Truth About the Facebook Movie – Newsweek

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Read: Facebook Movie: Even Darker Than You Thought – Newsweek

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Is going to college still a good investment?

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Justin Bieber takes up 3 percent of Twitter servers

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Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent

Bad news for digital multi-taskers:

A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who don't have the social networking site in visual range, or even running in the background on their computers or mobile phones.

The study found that Facebook users had a typical grade point average of 3.06, while "non-users" had an average GPA of 3.82.

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World Economic Forum’s 31 Most Innovative Start-Ups

I like lists that inform and spark my curiosity, and I like the WEF’s aspirations in this one: “The innovations of these companies reflect society’s attempts to harness, adapt and use technology to change and improve the way business and society operate.”

More from WEF:

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Ars Technica: OAuth is deeply flawed and Twitter’s approach is "by far the worst."

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Latin American Democracies Lash Out at the Press – Newsweek

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Newspapers on the Run?: The Rise of Mobile Journalism and the Digital Frontier | NewAmerica.net

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Hearst Opening ‘Think Tank’ For Apps | paidContent

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Internet wiping out printed Oxford Dictionary

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Internet wiping out printed Oxford Dictionary

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2011 Polaris Limited Ed. RANGER RZR Vehicles : Overview

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Today’s Tweets for 2010-08-11

  • RT @UncleRUSH: Simple idea ..Hang with people who lift u up. Separate from those who take u down. #
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Today’s Tweets for 2010-08-06

  • RT @Judy_Sims @yelvington Brilliant piece by Al Franken Net neutrality is foremost free speech issue of our time http://bit.ly/ccJebz #
  • Reminder to anyone interested in a new place to work in Reston, VA. Open house at WeSpace Saturday Pls RSVP at http://bit.ly/aHfICG #
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Today’s Tweets for 2010-08-05

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From AP via MSNBC: "Since the Civil War, Corning has turned out a glittering array of innovations from railroad signals to Pyrex and auto-pollution filters to optical fiber. Alloting 10 percent of revenue to research keeps promising projects brewing at its Sullivan Park research hub on Corning's hilly outskirts."

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