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Reporteros de bases de datos

“Some stories are just better told as databases and interactive web apps,” said Adrian Holovaty, founder of the neighborhood news site EveryBlock, which was funded by a Knight News Challenge grant and acquired by MSNBC.com in August. He explained by e-mail that “newspapers already understand that photography tells a story in a different way, and video tells a story in a different way, and those subdisciplines are well established in news companies. But custom Web apps haven’t crossed that chasm in newsroom culture yet.”

– Leído en Mashable, en un artículo de cómo los periodistas/programadores “están cambiando il mondo”.

Cadena alimenticia de la webz

Entre más abajo estés en la cadena alimenticia de la webz, menos tiempo hay entre “me urge una invite de Google” a “me sobran un chingo de invites de Google”.

Acción

When you play a game as awesome as Seiken Densetsu 3 and come to the realization that nobody else is going to translate it for you, it’s a call to action.

– Neill Colett explica su motivación para crear un parche con la traducción al inglés de la secuela al videojuego Secret of Mana, que no fue distribuido para Estados Unidos. Viene del artículo “Singing the brews: The history and philosophy of homebrew game development”.

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Ni que fueran qué

I mean, what were we all doing? Filming and tweeting and checking in rather than just putting our phones away and enjoying the gig. Why does the world need two thousand photos of the same band on the same stage, all taken from a slightly different angle. That kind of 360 degree imagery might have been useful on the day Kennedy was shot – not least because it would have kept Oliver Stone quiet – but for a Weezer gig?

– Paul Carr de TechCrunch reseñando un concierto privado de Weezer que organizó MySpace.