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A selection of quotes that caught my ear at the Journalism 3G conference in Atlanta "We don't want to own content." | Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News. Google News doesn't track how long people use Google News as a success goal because it is a search company -- Google wants you to find what you want and leave. Google wants to "amplify the amount of traffic" going to a story or site and that it's up to you, newspaper.com, to "monetize the traffic that com… Continue

It's short notice, but the folks at IRE/NICAR have started a Django mini boot camp at the NICAR national conference in Houston on Feb. 28. A group of us who believe data-driven web development is an important part of the future of news are teaming up to teach the basics of Django in eight classes spread out over two-and-a-half days.… Continue