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Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot
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Oct. 14, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Online ad revenue reaches record high, News of the World builds its wall, NY Post selling iPad app subscriptions

The livestream of Obama’s @MTV town hall, embedded in #newtwitter (via @digiphile) http://yfrog.com/nalpp »

NY Post: "the first periodical without a paid website that Apple is allowing to sell app subscriptions" http://nie.mn/cuxUjg »

Curation is "a domino effect in which you only provide the first tile – you don’t know…where the dominoes will fall." http://nie.mn/9tjgif »

Fun fact, history-of-bylines edition! The oldest article attributed to “Associated Press Writer” seems to be from 1927 http://nie.mn/cjJ49k »

Great entrepreneurs have the moment "where they have had to go left when everyone else is going right" http://nie.mn/9JGTHa »

PSA: @ProPublica is looking for an intern to help with distributed reporting (pays $700/week!) http://nie.mn/ab4CDU »

Murdoch’s News of the World: now behind a paywall http://nie.mn/bPvMxw »

Online ad revenue reached $12.1 billion in the first half of 2010–a record high http://nie.mn/a32Ie5 »

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