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UPDATED Running the latest version of Firefox is a huge drag — repeated freezes that require a forced shutdown of the application on my MacBook Pro. Growing pains for the Mozilla folks or just sloppy coding? Update: I should have been clearer, as commenters are noting, that the sloppy coding, if it exists, could easily […]

NewsTrust, where people rate the quality of news stories, has launched a beta site. The potential of this approach is terrific: community involvement in understanding how well journalists — including bloggers — do at their jobs (whether it’s a professional or amateur activity or something in between). Clearly, this is an early iteration. But the […]

Vox has launched with a fair amount of hype but also real promise. The key change is that the software easily enables private (or at least semi-private) conversations, a good idea.

MAPLight.org “brings together information on campaign contributions and votes in the California legislature.”

We’ve heard from a couple of people in the past month or so about comments they wrote that didn’t make it onto the site. Apologies for this. Here’s how the comments work here, and what probably happened. First, while we don’t require registration by comment posters, we do ask that you include an email address […]

Jack Slocum has created a brilliant WordPress comments system using a Yahoo toolset. This is an example of how people are creating impressive new things by linking technologies.

UPDATED Baristanet has created a mashup map, chronicling housing changes in Montclair, New Jersey. Nice work, and it’s been noticed by the NY Times. Update: The idea is not new. See Westport Now. (It’s still a cool project.)

I spoke yesterday at the inaugural Picnic gathering in Amsterdam, a look at the future of media. Bruno Giussani, who moderated my talk and subsequent panel with Marc Canter and Craig Newmark, is writing about the conference here. Marc has been working on a project that I need to learn a lot more about. He […]

AP: Pirate radio stations challenge feds. The rapidly proliferating scofflaws — and there are now hundreds of them broadcasting at any given moment in this country — are usually only audible within a few miles of their “home-brewed” transmitters. They find unused sections of the FM dial, fire up their mini-transmitters, raise their antennas and […]