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Today's Featured Deck, "electric" was designed by Blood Vision artist David Sheets who is also a part of the www.BoardPusher.com Skate Guild. You can find this graphic in Dave's shop at www.BoardPusher.com/shop/bloodvision or use it as a customizable background at www.BoardPusher.com/custom/skateboard-designer.

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Mizzou researchers create a tool that makes Twitter more powerful

Mizzou researchers create a tool that makes Twitter more powerful

Mizzou assistant professor Sean Goggins (left) and doctoral student Ian Graves developed software that measures the context of words used in Twitter. (Photo courtesy of the MU News Bureau)

Twitter already is a powerful news aggregator and microblogging platform. Now, two University of Missouri researchers think they know how to improve it.

Their thinking stems from new software the pair developed…

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Open Reporter requires you to have an open mind

Open Reporter requires you to have an open mind

Who can say that Honey Boo Boo inspired them to pursue journalism?

Misha Vinokur can.

Vinokur, a self-described innovator in Washington, D.C., says he was watching CNN when a scroll across the bottom of the screen announced in breaking-news fashion the half-pint reality TV star’s favorite energy drink.

“It really caught me by surprise and made me think, ‘Is this really news?’” he said. “So, I…

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Dionne: Higher education, diversity will save America

The repair of America’s divided political heart rests in the hands of higher education, says…

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Thanksgivukkah will return sooner than you think

Today, Americans can carve a turkey and light a Menorah at once.

That’s because Thanksgiving and…

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Kennedy’s story belongs to me now

I was nowhere when President Kennedy was shot.

“Nowhere” being a relative term.

My mother was in…

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Symbolism and significance crashed down on me Friday. In my bathroom. That’s when and where I learned that my 25-year career in newspaper journalism had ended.

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As social media use in journalism continues to grow, the scope of this discussion and the best practices that go along with it will broaden, to the point where one day it may become the central theme of journalism. That's why there's no better time like the present to start the discussion in earnest, and start it with presentations like this one.