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Collaborate on your Knight News Challenge ideas

We’re trying to spur ideas/collaboration among Hacks/Hackers members for the Knight News Challenge, a grant program that supports news innovation that has a Dec. 1 deadline. So far more than $20 million has been granted to dozens of projects, including Spot.us, DocumentCloud, Ushahidi and MediaBugs. Who

Download the new Hacks/Hackers membership signup form

We’ve updated the Hacks/Hackers membership signup form on Scribd. The changes: new logo, and also knowing what kinds of volunteering we need on a group-by-group basis — photography and blogging for example. Download and use for your group, if you need. Make sure to keep a list of people’

MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools

An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data

Seattle Hacks/Hackers Kicks off Thursday, Nov. 11 at Havana

The Seattle Hacks/Hackers group is kicking off on Thursday night at Havana on Pike Street. Reporters from The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, KING 5, Reuters, the Associated Press, MSNBC.com are all going to be there. Thanks to sponsorship from Patch, the event is free, but tickets are required.

Sleeping Bodies at the Great Urban Hack NYC

Hacks/Hackers NYC and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center held an epic hackathon called The Great Urban Hack which led to 25 hours of hacking. Below are some pictures of the hardcore folks who stayed at the space all night. The above shot is from after midnight, but before people started

Political Widget Takes Daylife’s Top Prize at ONA Hackathon

In conjunction with the Online News Association convention, Hacks/Hackers hosted a hackathon at NPR that was sponsored by Daylife, a New York-based technology company which offered a $500 cash prize for the the best use of its API. Surprisngly, hackathon participants hailed from as far as Portland, Miami, Los

Boston Hackathon Focuses on OpenBlock at MIT Media Lab

About 25 people gathered at the MIT Media Lab on October 30 for a Hack/Hackers Boston co-organized event to build geolocal apps using OpenBlock, an open source hyperlocal news and data gathering system based on Django. OpenBlock is based on EveryBlock. Boston Innovation had great coverage and a video,