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Outside.in is a local news and citizen journalism site that serves more than 11,800 towns and urban neighborhoods, assembling a news and entertainment guide for each from feeds offered by local media, bloggers and businesses. The site also includes discussions and personal profile pages for members, [...]

Technorati is a service that monitors many of the blogs published on the Web to find postings that will be of interest to members. If you are a blogger, Technorati is a valuable tool for following along with the conversation around your blog and the topics you cover, because it will alert you to new [...]

SpinSpotter is an evolving tool for identifying “spin” in news stories. The service installs as a toolbar in Firefox browsers to let users annotate pages on major media sites with spin markers that can be read and discussed by others.
There are two ways of using the toolbar. First, if you install the toolbar, you can [...]

We haven’t finished our review of BlogRunner, a news and blog posting aggregator from The New York Times, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

CrisisWire is a citizen journalism and emergency management site that collects information about crises as they unfold from people at the scene and various news and government sources. Anyone can participate by, for example, tagging blog posts, Twitter tweets, photos and video clips with a designated tag. For example, during the November 2008 attacks on [...]

We haven’t finished our review of Furl, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

We haven’t finished our review of Reddit, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

We haven’t finished our review of Mahalo, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

 
Google Reader makes collecting and redistributing information very simple. RSS feeds, built on Really Simple Syndication, a technology for subscribing to the content of Web pages, blogs and other sites, are the nervous system of the social network connecting people and information. They can be used to assemble a completely personalized view of the world that [...]

Ushahidi delivers news in a crisis from the site of the crisis

Ushahidi is an example of the humane and transformative potential of social media. The site is a mash-up of communications and mapping technology that allows people on that ground in a developing country to collect and publish information during a crisis. All members need [...]