Experimenthol Middle East, social media and translation. By @Tom_El_Rumi

African News Innovation Challenge: Checkdesk: A digital newsroom where journalists and citizens work together

africannewschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Link journalists in North Africa with their community of readers via a collaborative, open source digital newsroom.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Services Yahki, Storyful and Storify…

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Reel Syria 2012 Festival Schedule. Mar 15-18 (London)

Knight News Challenge: TranslateDesk: Translation Workbench for Twitter

Proud to work with these guys - great ideas to tackle an important challenge.

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Develop a translation workbench for Twitter that makes it fun to translate tweets and share them back into Twitter.

2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Many services are using machines to translate…

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The Great Wireless Hack of 1903 - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

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The age of Lionel Messi | Richard Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Chinese: What is the Chinese language? | The Economist

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Mark Steel: Just because you're an atheist doesn't make you rational - Mark Steel - Commentators - The Independent

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How will technology influence the news in 2012? | Dan Gillmor

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Syria’s Defecting Bloggers « Qifa Nabki | A Lebanese Political Blog

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'Virginity tests' on Egypt protesters are illegal, says judge | World news | guardian.co.uk

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