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UPDATED: Seattle Demo Day Presenters Announced

UPDATE: Watch UStream video of the 2011 Seattle Hacks/Hackers demo beginning at 6:3o p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Free live streaming by Ustream Thanks to everyone who submitted entries for our first demo event! We received far more applications than we could accommodate for this first

Do You Want to Play a Game? News + Gaming hackathon on April 22-23

We’re hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. To participate, register on our Meetup.com page. We will have great food. The agenda: – Friday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.: Social

Coding for Beginners, taught by Dan Nguyen at General Assembly, Thursday, 3/24 8 pm

Update: It’s sold out and we are seeing huge demand for another class. So we are working on finding new time/space. Hacks/Hackers is teaming up with tech space General Assembly to start offering courses in the digital journalism space! Our first offering is by Dan Nguyen (@dancow)

Hacks/Hackers party at SXSW

[View the story “The “Awesomest Journalism Party” Leaves its Marq” on Storify]

Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever @ SXSW

Please join Hacks/Hackers, Online News Association, Poynter Institute, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Vision Cloud, Scribd, Tableau Software and more for a rockin’ party during SXSW. It’s the Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. Really. And you’re invited for music and fun with some of the most innovative journalists and

Save the Date: Gaming + News Hackathon in NYC on April 22-23, 2011

Save the date! Hacks/Hackers NYC will be hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. Plans are still coming together. But it looks like we will do a Friday night social event

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Wikileaks – Data Science & Data Journalism

When WikiLeaks released the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, news organizations and the public alike sprang into action to understand the documents. The New York Times was instrumental in analyzing and reporting the story in articles, photographs, maps and graphic information. Meanwhile, several local hackers worked on their own data