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Name: Bill Wolff  |  william.i.wolff@gmail.com

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NYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API

Written on February 5th, 2009 at 12:12 am by Bill

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Via ReadWriteWeb, the New York Times has announced the release of 2.8 million articles with 28 searchable fields in an new API (Application Programming Interface). Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb writes: What do you do when your industry is shifting under your feet? Taking the lead with radical steps is one strategy. The New York Times did [...]

mapping superbowl tweets in the nytimes

Written on February 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm by Bill

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this post has been retitled from “it’s a twitter-happy go-go springsteen nation.” Via @courtneybird who retweeted @nickbilton and an email message from my father (who refuses to Twitter but sends me all sorts of Twitter-related news articles), the New York Times has semantically and geographically represented on the continental United States an interactive tag cloud of [...]

introductory video to writing, research, technology

Written on January 27th, 2009 at 8:11 pm by Bill

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For more information, please see the course web site and its YouTube hub.

the freedom riders: then and now

Written on January 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm by Bill

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The February 2009 issue of Smithsonian has a wonderful article, “The Freedom Writers,” which discusses a photography book created in part as a tribute the 80 heroic men and women who in 1961 boarded buses and headed south to protest illegal segregation at interstate highway facilities. The book by writer and aspiring photographer Eric Etheridge, [...]