Posted on December 8, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
At TrackerNews, our approach is a little different from most aggregators. While they focus either on the latest or most popular stories, we focus on context. Stories cycle through the site in groups to deliver a more faceted experience: breaking news is paired with archived stories, research papers, blog posts, websites, book reviews, e-books – [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Hope Phones is one of those “Gosh, yes!” ideas:
Get people to donate old cell phones to a recycling company
Get recycling company to assign each phone a value
Use value to trade for refurbished phones
Donate refurbished phones to clinics in developing countries to use for sending health-related text messages
Good begets good
Stanford student Josh Nesbit, who came up [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Last week, the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic rating for swine flu (aka H1N1) all the way to an unprecedented “pandemic imminent” level 5, with a top-of-the-chart 6 considered inevitable. Was it time to wear masks? Stock up on Tamiflu and canned goods? Update wills? Pull out old high school lit-class copies of [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by J.A. Ginsburg
The search for good links for TrackerNews has been an adventure. Why should “bots” have all the fun crawling the web for tasty content? Those over-achiever algorythmic bits of code will catch on to what I’ve been doing soon enough. For now, there is room for all in the cyber-universe.
TrackerNews could be described as a [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2008 by J.A. Ginsburg
When the Great Somali Pirate story broke into the headlines last week, the media’s first reaction was to make a joke of it. Pirates are Jack Sparrow, popcorn, a night on the couch for a cable-movie marathon and one of the best film scores ever. Piracy is a fake Fendi. Yes, buckles are swashed (if [...]
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