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XP to Windows 7 countdown: Clean install or not?

I'm drawing up plans for a clean install, but mulling a new tool that promises to make migration easier.

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Inside the Google News algorithm

I had a rare chance to hear the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat, this weekend explain how topics and stories end up on its home page. While he didn't give away all his secrets, the Google principal scientist did outline why certain articles get higher placement than others.

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4 cool Web tips

Live from the Online News Association conference in San Francisco, '4 cool tools for journalists' being demoed now.

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Group messaging coming for Twitter

After assuring us he wasn't pre-announcing new features, Twitter CEO Evan Williams made it pretty clear today that group messaging is on the way.

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Quick Look: Regular Expressions Cookbook

This compendium of problem-solving code snippets is a worthwhile addition to a programmer's reference shelf.

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Firefox 3.5 'highly critical' security hole in the wild

A memory corruption vulnerability could allow execution of malicious code.

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Government health experts learning how best to contribute to Wikipedia

Some "experienced Wikipedia authors" will spend a day at the National Institutes of Health this week teaching government experts how best to contribute health info to the popular open-source encyclopedia.

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Yahoo YQL gets create, delete functions

The new commands will allow the platform to do things like serve apps that create new Twitter tweets.

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Google Operating System: 7 Thoughts

How Google Chrome OS might (or might not) change the desktop landscape.

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Should local governments back the iPhone?

Talk about your digital divide. Boston will soon offer an iPhone app allowing residents to easily notify City Hall about neighborhoods problems. Should municipal government be offering preferred service for a single platform with minority market share?

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Las Vegas Sun online head: 'We now geocode every story on our site'

Adding just a smidgen of structure to your information on the Web brings so much reader value. That's why there's so much interest these days in the intersection of journalism and technology.

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Where the job demand is

This cool interactive map plots high demand compared to supply by job category and metro area.

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Is blogging passe?

One who successfully plies the trade says he's moving on to a 'lifestream.'

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Computerworld.com launched 13 years ago

Discovering the announcement of our first Web site has been like traveling back in tech time.

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Twitter postpones 'critical' upgrade to avoid outage during Iran demonstrations

Due to its key role in helping Iranians who are challenging announced election results, Twitter has rescheduled planned maintenance.

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