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Apture

http://www.apture.com/

Powerful multimedia program allows Web content creators to embed images, video, audio and screen grabs into their articles. Content pops up in a small window in the same screen, allowing users to get more information from articles without having to open new windows or tabs or do their own searching. Apture even allows content creator to specify the point that an embedded video should start at or what portion of a document should be captured so that users don’t have to watch a long video or read a large document to see pertinent parts.

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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/whale-watching-trumps-whaling/

Change Tracker

http://www.propublica.org/ion/changetracker

ProPublica developed a Web application called ChangeTracker to monitor www.whitehouse.gov for changes, and provides before-and-after pictures of the site. ChangeTracker was created using easy-to-use, free software so that other organizations could use a similar application to monitor other Web sites. The day after it launched, ChangeTracker disclosed a change on the WhiteHouse.gov Hurricane Katrina page, and later changes on its Iraq policy page. The code for the program has been used almost 100 times.

Patchwork Nation

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/patchworknation/#/archive/?category=hardship&map=hardship-index-july-2009

Patchwork Nation is a Web site shared by the Christian Science Monitor and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that uses reams of demographic data to break the nation’s 3,100-plus counties into 12 different kind of places, with the idea of studying how different parts of the United States are dealing with an era of dramatic change in politics, culture and the economy. There are 24 communities, two for each type, that they track through citizen bloggers in each place. Along with that street-level reportage they use their community types as a filter for data they collect at the county level. With public broadcasting they have found 15 partner stations. In other communities they have identified local bloggers to help with local news.

Printcasting

http://www.printcasting.com/

Printcasting translates a blogging into a physical magazine that printcasters can distribute however they like. Additionally, users can share content with each other across different blogs. Users will also be able to sell advertising and trade content for advertising share.

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