The Greenboro News & Record has restructured, with the loss of some jobs, in the face of the move to digitising news. This piece sets out the landscape perfectly.

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Jeff Jarvis again, this time on Facebook, the social networking phenomenon. After opening up to more than college students the site has been growing strongly and the latest innovation has been to allow others to create application to run on the platform. It’s worth reading his account of why he thinks Facebook is going to be so important.

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Jeff Javis has an interesting perspective for media companies who he says should look to cultivate talent outside of the organisation. The flip side is his advice to budding journalists – get a beat, blog and you’ll be sought after.

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Microsoft’s R&D organisation have been working on “surface computing’ for some years, but this year, apparently, the first product should start to ship. Techcrunch has the details – and an instructive video from Popular Mechanics.

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I missed this one: Google has bought (for an undisclosed sum) a Spanish company which offers technology which can tie geo-co-ordinates to pictures.

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Eweek repots that the latest version of Six Apart’s blogging platform offers blogs which look more like websites,

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Google is experimenting with different ways of viewing results. In addition to the usual list view, there are now also timeline and map views which respectively place results on a timeline (using the dates in the text) or a map (using the location information in the text).

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Steve Rubel discusses the “World Beam”, a vision of the future where information is amalgamated into a chronological stream of information which can be consumed at will.

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Google moves a little closer to the OS with Google Gears, a downloadable browser plug-in which allows people to run applications offline.

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