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Hacks/Hackers Austin plans first event

Hacks/Hackers Austin will hold its first meetup Thursday, September 30 from 6-8 p.m. at Austin’s Pizza on the Drag (2324 Guadalupe, Austin 78705). Join us upstairs in the bar for free pizza and drinks (while drink tickets last/cash bar thereafter) and great conversation. It’s a

Introducing the Open(source).athon in NYC

The Hacks/Hackers NYC is throwing an open(source).athon in the OpenPlans penthouse on Oct 2 to see how much great software for news/information we can open source in 12 hours? If you are a hacker, bring your code and get the time and some help to push

Chicago Debut Meetup: September 15 at the Holiday Club

Hacks/Hackers Chicago is getting into gear with its first Meetup on Wednesday, Sept. 15 from 6-8 p.m. at the Holiday Club (4000 N Sheridan Road). More details below Meet up, geek out, and enjoy complimentary food and beverages with programmers, journalists and others in Chicago’s media and

ProPublica Redesign Involves the Readers in Complex Stories

At ProPublica, we make a habit of sharing. We give our biggest stories for free to news organizations, and we hand out recipes for some of our most complex investigations. We encourage other news organizations to steal our stories, and give out, free to use, clean, reliable, analyzed data that

Google’s ‘Living Stories’: An End to Static Online News

Source code for Living Stories (including a WordPress plugin) can be downloaded from Google Code.

The Launch of Hacks/Hackers London

We’re delighted to announce that the first international group of Hacks/Hackers got off to a fantastic start yesterday. Having originally expected a modest turnout, we were bowled over when more than 50 journalists and coders gathered at The Shooting Star pub in Spitalfields on Wednesday evening for the