In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: NYT social media editor, Tucker Carlson, Chinese bloggers
Here’s the internal memo on appointment of Jennifer Preston as NYT’s first social media editor http://tr.im/mrBB »
Tucker Carlson is prepping what he calls a conservative version of The Huffington Post http://tr.im/mtIc »
TVGuide.com is altering its iconic logo tomorrow to promote a new show on A&E http://tr.im/mrf2 »
The real-time web will extend to advertising, too http://tr.im/mrpl (via @jweb) »
More than half of Chinese Internet users have blogs (54% of 298 million), compared to 11% in the U.S. http://tr.im/mpRu »
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February 8, 2012
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