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Outbound links? EveryBlock? What the hell just happened at the Trib?

I just had an interesting chat with Daniel X. O’Neil, EveryBlock’s People Person, and he confirmed my suspicions…

Two (maybe three) *totally amazing* things happened on chicagotribune.com today.

They silently released a new “(beta test)” feature, an EveryBlock-enabled police blotter.  Gaper’s Block got the scoop, from, get this, a tweet by the Tribune’s twitter persona, according to [...]

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Who runs newspapers? Who should run news web sites?

Joel Spolsky from Inc. Magazine (via SVN):
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. The cult of the M.B.A. [...]

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Links: NYT catching on, Tribune so far behind it makes my webs weep

“The WWW world consists of documents, and links.” — Tim Berners-Lee, in alt.hypertext, 1991.

red light district, by SMN
Why do newspapers publish AP articles online? Why not just link to them? David Cohen says “Stop buying Associated Press articles.”
They are called hyperlinks. They are blue. They are useful. Look Ma’ - here’s an AP [...]

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