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 on Twitter: Smarter search, Boston Globe, N.Y. media softball
Crazy smart search engine can answer this: “What was the weather in Rancho Mirage when Gerald Ford died?” http://tr.im/kPvF »
WSJ’s Robert Thomson swipes at NYT again, re TimesSelect: “You should be *paid* to read New York Times comment” http://tr.im/kSef (at 3:23) »
Boston Globe is aggregating tweets about tonight’s subway crash but notes, “Warning: May contain profanity” http://pic.im/2Yd »
The wide world of sports visualizations http://tr.im/kQEi »
NY media softball teams turn to ringers as layoffs deplete lineups. Web startup The Daily Beast fields a team http://tr.im/kVbu »
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February 9, 2012
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