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Could Ida Tarbell bust Standard Oil on Twitter?
Dave Winer on Twitter: I wonder why press people have trouble seeing that news is what’s happening there. Sure there’s a lot of other stuff on Twitter — they focus on that instead. I leave it to the investigative journalists to figure out why. Wonder what muckraking investigative reporter Ida Tarbell would make of Twitter?…
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Pilfer and prosper
Maybe the best lesson I learned during the long newspaper war in Anchorage was this: if you come across a good idea elsewhere, consider stealing it. If the good idea shows up in the competition, steal it immediately. — Howard Weaver
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Patches of sunlight everywhere
Interesting open record, government transparency efforts of “local blogs that do a great job of covering local, state, and congressional political news” from around the country.