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 
Links from Twitter: Swine flu, portfolios, megafauna
As an experiment, The Austin American-Statesman booted up a standalone site with links to swine flu news http://tr.im/k2X5 »
If news sites were megafauna: Velocireporter (TPM), Linkodactyl (Drudge), Snark-Toothed Tiger (Gawker), etc http://tr.im/k2F2 »
Truly “ultimate guide” to building your portfolio site on WordPress: themes, tips, apps, examples, links http://tr.im/k27R »
A spate of news sites in Maplewood, NJ has turned the suburb into a hyperlocal petri dish http://tr.im/k22V »
The Guardian’s @arusbridger saw Huff Post’s model and thought, “Isn’t it better to do it to ourselves?” http://tr.im/k0Ni »
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February 9, 2012
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