The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Knight’s “test kitchens” for news innovation, AP’s contracts with Google and Yahoo, FT’s sentiment search
Ibarguen says Knight wants to launch “test kitchens” for innovative ideas in news (with universities and news orgs) #kncmit »
Associated Press CEO says his top priority is renegotiating contracts with Google and Yahoo http://tr.im/oMRb »
The last Q&A here with @fuzheado, on differences in foreign-language versions of Wikipedia, is fascinating http://tr.im/oMZg »
Is viral the best way to describe web culture? You don’t really catch a flash mob, @page88points out http://tr.im/oN17 »
Software used by the Financial Times lets readers search for articles that are “positive” or “negative” http://tr.im/oOgB »
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February 10, 2012
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