Interesting stuff I saw online from Dec. 3 to Dec. 4
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Dec. 3 through Dec. 4:
- Carnegie Mellon's reCAPTCHA software helps digitize books a word at a time – Am I the last person on earth who knew about this? I think it's really cool. "reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher."
- 10 changes in journalists role (and 5 things that remain the same) « O Lago | The Lake – This is a great list. Thanks!
- Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Ain't this the truth? "Twitter decided that it had too much left to do, beginning with figuring out how to make money."
- ACBJ leads $4.1M round to ThePort – Birmingham Business Journal: – This is the company that provides the foundation for MySTLtoday.com. "Existing investors included in the new round were Lee Enterprises, a newspaper publisher, Atlanta-based Imlay Investments, angel investor Robert Jetmundsen and ThePort's CEO Bob Cramer.
Kurt's Tweets- Funny. SW airlines magazine bothers to mention that pacemakers are always authorized electronic devices. #fb
- A disgrace, St. Louis. People still litter? http://post.ly/OUsk
- Redemption for Lindsey Jacobellis in snowboardcross? Only click if you really wanna know. http://bit.ly/99OgbM
- West Countians: If you're in the market for a pancake supper tonight, there's one here: http://stmartinschurch.org.
- The fiddling continues, even as Rome burns.