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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

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Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits. You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. That's cool.

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

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As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web.

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Things We Like (March 2009)

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The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. We have a thing for maps, it's true. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession.

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