Deadline for Renegade Holiday Crafts Event Approaching →
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Calling all D.I.Y. ers. Get in on this opportunity for 2009.
October 2009
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The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Google Voice support on tap | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com →
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A move toward open mobile devices. Support for Google voice. My next carrier?
Parking and Puking: City Council Postpones Vote On Taxi Issues →
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An ordinance to allow taxi drivers to park overnight on side streets in a congested Far North Side neighborhood, creating a possible alternative to muggings and robberies, was postponed last week.
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Program Teaches Science and Alternative Energy, Offers Job Training For Chicago Youth →
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By John O’Neill, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program
Most of the year, Michael Harris Jr. is a mild-mannered student at Austin Polytechnical Academy on the West Side. But this summer, Harris…
Rio To Host 2016 Olympics, Chicago Eliminated in First Round →
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Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee today chose Rio as the host city, marking the first time a South American city has been chosen, as Chicago was…
Anti-Abortion Protesters in Chicago Could Face Tougher Laws →
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Anti-abortion protesters could soon be subject to new rules that would require them to keep their distance from women outside Chicago abortion clinics. But with activists as well as a civil…
Free Tour Saturday Will Demonstrate Solar Power Systems →
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Homeowners seeking to reduce the cost of their utilities can learn more through the Illinois Solar Association’s free, self-guided tour on Oct 3.
As a part of a nationwide event, Illinois visitors…
WTTW Speaks With Rev. Jesse Jackson About Fatal Beating at Fenger High School →
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WTTW’s Chicago Tonight interviewed the Rev. Jesse Jackson about the mob beating of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, who died as a result of the attacks. Jackson spent time with Albert’s…
Should journalists self-censor on social networking sites? - Editors Weblog →
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I am beginning to think about whether I trust someone who would self-censor on tweets like those described in this story. At some point, don’t even journalists need to stand up against “today’s hyper-sensative political environment?”
September 2009
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Eye-Opening Seminar Exposes North Side Gangbanging →
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By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News
In a packed auditorium at Swedish Covenant Hospital, a North Side audience snacked on chocolate Macadamia nut cookies donated by a local Costco and…
Mediamatic.net - Social RFID video's →
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Hacker campers produce games that use or work with social media.
Englewood Pastors Excluded From CPS Anti-Violence Plan, Millions Go to Out-of-State Group →
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In an effort to push a $30 million anti-violence plan, the Chicago Board of Education has decided to partner with a national advocacy organization based out-of-state, upsetting a group of local…
“Post journalists should not be involved in any social networks related to advocacy or a special interest regarding topics they cover, unless specifically permitted by a supervising editor for reporting and so long as other standards of transparency are maintained while doing any such reporting.” The spirit of this dictate makes sense; it is not a new concept. But, given our heightened state of convergence, the evolution of our collective use of the channels available, the specificity and scope of it, right here and right now, are worth a look. Can something so encompassing, attempting to harness such an array of factors at a time when the media sphere has never been so enabled be enforced and honored? In good faith, sure. In practice, this is anything but a straight path.”
—MediaPost Publications Social Media Policy & Today’s News Organization 09/28/2009
Parents, Faculty Desperate For New Addition To Jam-Packed Edgebrook Elementary School →
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When students at Edgebrook Elementary School need help learning English, they report to an unlikely spot — a table tucked behind a partition on a stairwell landing. They buy their hot lunches from…
Chicago Waits: One Week Until Olympic Announcement, Site of Potential Olympic Village Set for Demolition →
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The countdown is on. In less than a week Chicagoans–and the rest of the world–will know which city will the host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The campus of the Michael Reese Hospital, targeted…
Breaking News: Twitter to Raise $100 Million From Insight, T. Rowe Price, Other Investors - Deal Journal - WSJ →
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By Deal Journal
Michael Corkery and Jessica E. Vascellaro report:
Twitter, the messaging web site that has become an Internet sensation, is nearing a deal to close as much as $100 million of new funding from as many as seven investors, according to people familiar with the deal.
The investor group includes mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private-equity firm Insight Venture Partners, which are new investors to Twitter. The $100 million investment is about twice as much as Twitter was reportedly expected to haul in this latest round of fund-raising.
Other investors in this round include venture-capital firms Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners, which have previously invested in Twitter.
Northwest Side to Get Another Library As West Side Fights to Keep Branches Open →
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One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago will start work on a third public library next year, while two aldermen from the struggling West Side fight for funding to keep their library branches…
DePaul Professor: Second Wave of Foreclosures Coming, Need for Affordable Housing Grows →
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ByDimitrios Kalantzis, Contributing Editor, Lake Effect News
Last month the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released a study, which found a significant increase in…
“This question has always been an issue,” said Fred von Lohmann, a copyright attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One of the closest cases on point, he said, was in 2007, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that Google was not breaching copyrights by hyperlinking to images as part of an image index. In the end, von Lohmann speculated that Scribd would win the filtering argument.”
—Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes | Threat Level | Wired.com
