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@niemanlab archives: June 18, 2009

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Technical specs of The Guardian’s crowdsourcing app: Built with Django by @simonw and hosted on Amazon EC2 http://tr.im/oZcI (Link fixed) 
 
Technical specs of The Guardian’s crowdsourcing app: Built with Django by @simonw and hosted on Amazon EC2 http://tr.im/oZ8j 
 
Dan Froomkin comments on Washington Post dropping his blog http://tr.im/oYBv Read his series for us on engaging readers http://tr.im/oYBP 
 
Thanks for your replies to me and @Newsweek on how Watergate would be covered today. Here’s what you said: http://ff.im/496nH 
 
New at the Lab: Q&A with #knc09 winner Ory Okolloh, of Ushahidi, on crowdsourcing crisis coverage in Kenya http://tr.im/oY4L 
 
Comments policy on NYT’s multimedia blog: “Here’s how we feel about emoticons: :( Please don’t use them” http://tr.im/oY3A 
 
Men’s Health selling mobile content — in their case, workout plans — using the iPhone’s new pricing model http://tr.im/oY2D 
 
@CodyBrown Thanks for the reminder. I’ll get you an answer on Young Creators Award today. (Does anyone at @KnightFdn know?) #knc09 
 
New video at the Lab: Knight News Challenge chief Gary Kebbel explains the judging process http://tr.im/oWuW #knc09 
 
New video at the Lab: Knight News Challenge chief Gary Kebble explains the judging process http://tr.im/oWuW #knc09 
 
The DocumentCloud guys are chatting about it now at Poynter http://tr.im/oVYZ Behind the scenes: http://twitpic.com/7pp37 #kncmit 
 
Wow, wow, wow. Check out how The Guardian is crowdsourcing its coverage of MP expenses. Awesome new tool http://tr.im/oVxx 
 
Jeff Zogby asks why people trust online news more than newspapers. He says one factor is political ideology http://tr.im/oVpC 
 
Beijing seeks an army of 10,000 Internet censors to reinforce China’s control of the web http://tr.im/oUwh 
 
Celebrity blogger @PerezHilton will test sponsored tweets this summer http://tr.im/oUs5 
 
TPM publisher Josh Marshall went on Colbert and explained how his readers are “our first line of defense” http://tr.im/oUr0 
 
Good morning! The Watergate burglars were arraigned 37 years ago. How would (or wouldn’t) Watergate get covered today?