The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Morning Links: January 22, 2009
— You know they take software development seriously at the Times when they create their own nerd conference to support it.
— Mark Glaser reports on the RJI Talkfest at Mizzou.
— Both Martin and I are quoted extensively in this piece, in the alt-weekly in Lafayettte, Louisiana, about cutbacks at The Advertiser, the daily paper there. (It was the paper I read every morning when I was a kid.) The daily for a metro area of 550,000 people now has only 16 pages and one section some days.
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