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: Redesigning search at The Guardian, bylines on Google News, BBC explains politics with chocolate cake
Before remaking its search function, The Guardian studied how readers use it: largely, to navigate the site http://tr.im/p2Mm »
Is this the first academic paper on retweeting? http://tr.im/p0oU (PDF) It’s interesting! »
Google News now supports bylines, so you can search or create a feed of stories by individual reporters http://tr.im/p6TS »
Five things newspapers could learn from the 1980s arcade game “Paperboy” http://tr.im/p32M (via @GinaMChen) »
AP’s social media rules hold staffers responsible for content posted on their Facebook profiles by others http://tr.im/p6Pq »
Making the news more palatable: BBC explains European Union politics with chocolate cake http://tr.im/p7fa »
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February 8, 2012
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