Living Stories: Google’s new method of packaging news online

Paul Bradshaw wrote an interesting review of Living Stories, Google’s vision of how news should be read, shared and discussed online. Related: What’s Evernote for? How about making a vast, searchable archive of all your files Partnering with the New York Times and the Washington Post, Google has created an experiment that tries to move …

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New research tool: Searchable Google archives of Life Magazine

This is a cool tool for history buffs: Google unveiled a vast, searchable archive of Life Magazine for all 1,860 issues from 1936 to 1972. Run a search for “San Antonio” and you’ll find all kinds of stories and photos: A 1938 feature story about Thomas Jefferson High School, with photos of its ROTC classes …

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