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Letting local news media’s institutional knowledge slide down the drain

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Last night I was talking with my disillusioned journalist friend Aidan about the staff cuts that just hit a couple of newspapers, and how many older reporters left, and how much more than just bodies the newspapers lost. With all these newspaper buy-outs, lay-offs and walk-outs goes massive amounts of institutional knowledge.
It doesn’t have to […]

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Discovering what’s already out there, and journalist archaeologists

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Steve Yelvington, a big name in the online journalism world, wrote last week about many programmers’ unnecessary desire to reinvent the wheel with every new gig. Near the end of his post he writes (emphasis added):
Vernor Vinge’s notion of the “programmer archaeologist” really is about discovering what’s already out there, and placing it into valuable […]

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