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The classified Iraq War short story the Pentagon is hiding(muckrock.com)
9 points by morisy 15y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 15y ago
None, but I've found myself starting to follow individual IT writers as opposed to publications, setting up Google Alerts and RSS feeds to have my own "fantasy" league of great writers with minimum cruft and no sneaky advertorial.
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by morisy 15y ago
That's an interesting way to put it. We've focused on the "pull" method for a few years with MuckRock.com, and I'd never thought of that but it speaks to why we've gotten the type of audience/userbase we have.
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by morisy 15y ago
The lag time surprised me, too, but if you're going to tell your app developers they can no longer sell directly to their customers without jumping through a few hoops, you definitely at least want to give them a long head's up. I'd bet the
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by morisy 15y ago
Well, there were signals that something would change as soon as Apple launched the App Store for OS X. I think having signed developer ID's, with the option of allowing unsigned, is an OK step and might even bode for a more open iOS platf
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by morisy 15y ago
Briefings like that aren't unusual ... just highly unusual for Apple. I've sat in dozens of similar ones unveiling new versions of hardware, software or services for both consumer and business. It offers less launch-day spectacle, but it al
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by morisy 15y ago
Don't get hung up on the "immersive theater" examples: Similar arguments would have been used to shoot down YouTube and the social web years ago. Instead, I think there's a lot of ground to be covered in lightly immersive, highly tailored e
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by morisy 15y ago
£60.00 doesn't sound bad. We'd need it to fit into our automated workflow and be able to handle hundreds of pages at a time, and occasionally 1k+ page documents, and stuff from Nuance we'd looked at would have cost $4k or more a year, plus
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by morisy 15y ago
That's really cool, thanks. But I don't think it includes OCR. The best FOSS OCR out there is Tesseract, which we use through DocumentCloud, but it still leaves a lot to be desired compared to commercial solutions.
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by morisy 15y ago
We're looking to build quality OCR into MuckRock so every document gets it, but it's surprisingly either a) technically difficult or b) financially expensive, choose one.
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New "Networks" Knight News Challenge seeks to fund media startups(knightfoundation.org)
1 points by morisy 15y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 15y ago
They are flattened: The FBI prints out files, redacts them, and then scans them back in. A number of federal agencies do this, really making it a pain to search through documents.
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by morisy 15y ago
That is my favorite quote so far, along with the section that says Mr. Jobs "couldn't see the SA for one hour" for the next three weeks.
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Steve Jobs FBI Files [pdf](muckrock.com)
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The FBI's files on Steve Jobs(muckrock.com)
377 points by morisy 15y ago|168 comments
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Carrier IQ responds to FBI’s FOIA response(muckrock.com)
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The FBI is using Carrier IQ data in investigations? Not so fast…(thenextweb.com)
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by morisy 15y ago
Not discounting the possibility of that (I specifically stated it in the article), but I'd bet even odds FBI has some knowledge of accessing Carrier IQ data.
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by morisy 15y ago
Not quite sure it's "paranoid" to think the FBI is, in some cases, using Carrier IQ software to gather information given recent U.S. history. Also, since the request was specifically for manuals used to gather information using Carrier IQ,
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FBI: Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes"(muckrock.com)
215 points by morisy 15y ago|78 comments
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by morisy 15y ago
As a current tech journalist AND entrepreneur, I can definitely see your point regarding TechCrunch. Our mentions in "buzzier" publications got us a huge strike in interest with about zilch market fit. This writer's suggestions, however, re
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by morisy 15y ago
Seeing Pinboard's success was really helpful in getting over the sick feeling of charging a sea of free, and I think we're finally seeing a non-trivial amount of web users understand that if you're not the customer, you're the product (afte
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ReadWriteWeb's Most Promising Company For 2012 (Hint: Think HTML5)(readwriteweb.com)
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Was the government tapping into Carrier IQ's services? (FOIA Requests)(muckrock.com)
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Google launches data journalism awards with GEN(journalism.co.uk)
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Git + Dropbox = Free Git Hosting + Backup Love(corrupt.net)
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by morisy 15y ago
You're right. I definitely shouldn't have used the term "identical". The user interface paradigm seems very similar in concept, regardless of the underlying technology, and I guess I was trying to push back on that hype as an original take.
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by morisy 15y ago
VMware has been demoing what sounds like almost identical technology for a while now: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/like... It creates a virtual machine that's hardware encrypted on the device, and actually runs
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HuffPost buys Boston-based media startup Localocracy, hits 1b monthly pageviews(allthingsd.com)
1 points by morisy 15y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 15y ago
That exact passage stood out to me for the precise opposite reason: For every Gruber-esque writer on Apple's side, there are hundreds of MacRumors, InfiniteLoops, etc., that predict, usually badly, future Apple visages. Good, cogent writing

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