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A recent Project for Excellence in Journalism report explains that while online news and media resources are growing in popularity, it's not a replacement for tradition journalism practices and purveyors.

Kottke said then that Google isn't worried about competitors in the search space-Microsoft with Live Search and Yahoo Search-but they really want to take on Windows.

News about search engines, databases, and other information collections. Home > News > WikiCity - 22,000 Cities and 22,000 Wikis WikiCity - 22,000 Cities and 22,000 Wikis July 9th, 2009 Now THAT'S what I call a big project.

While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.

If we in the blogosphere thought this holiday weekend was going to be a slow news weekend, Sarah Palin sure threw a wrench into that, eh? The reax to her resignation are still piling up at Memeorandum as people continue to speculate on the reasons she did it and what it means for her political future.

There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center.

John F. Davignon and Emily J. Parkhurst were married in a sunset ceremony on the beach in Maui on June 24.

Cruise missiles fly low and slow, so they're tough to track on horizon-limited radar.

Leave it to Memeorandum to give us a snapshot of the most important story of the day.

For generations, the men of Munimpur worked their sun-baked wheat fields, rising before dawn to till the same soil their grandfathers plowed.

Boat captains say dolphins, known for their toothy grins and playfulness, are growing increasingly aggressive in their quest for food, with some taking fish right off the hook - something that rarely happened just a few years ago.

Elder of Ziyon noted on Wednesday that Israel's release of Aziz Dweik - a Hamas politician - stirred rumors that a deal for the release of Gilad Shalit is in the works.

OK, I'll admit, I did not watch, ore really even read, anything during the day Wednesday as ABC News and The White House became one and the same.

A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

Two men have died in Sant Pere de Vilamayor in Barcelona, when their private plane crashed into the garden of a private villa and burst into flames.

People were storing grain long before they learned to domesticate crops, a new study indicates.

Therapy dogs can be a comfort for seniors and those recovering from illnesses and injuries.

A Kentucky State Police Detective testified in open court Thursday that one comment posted on Topix accused Carter County District Judge Rupert Wilhoit of selling drugs out of the justice center.

In my previous post, Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002 , I mentioned that one of the "features" of the new generation of URL shortening services is to frame the target content.

In violation of probation terms, she was found holed up in a hotel room with more than a dozen rabbits.