Daily Archives: Friday, February 8, 2002

Are you macro-myopic?

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2002 by Rex Hammock

Thanks to Doc Searls, I found something today I’ve been seeking a long time. (Doc’s role explained later.) For years (okay, maybe two or three times over a several-year period) I’ve tried to track down an online reference to a … Continue reading →

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A computer generated this headline

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2002 by Rex Hammock

Check out Newsblaster, a project from Columbia University, which currently crawls 13 major news sources, aggregates links to similar stories and generates a natural-language summary, as explained by John Pavlik in Online Journalism Review.

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Ground zero moms and pops

Posted on Friday, February 8, 2002 by Rex Hammock

The Wall Street Journal reports on efforts to help small businesses in the WTC area affected by September 11. Quote: In addition to the Small Business Administration, the $6.5 million Financial Recovery Fund, set up by the New York City … Continue reading →

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