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: Google calls publishers’ bluff, covering local business, MetaFilter’s servers in 2002
European publishers say they won’t “give away” content to search engines. Google says, OK, here’s how http://tr.im/sv4E »
It’s profitable: Two guys covering local business in five U.S. cities — with an assist from India http://tr.im/svWq »
Surprisingly, local businesses account for 20% of advertising on social networks http://tr.im/sqO9 »
Unofficial link-shortener for New York Times URLs, by @donohoe, is back up and running http://nyturl.com »
What MetaFilter’s servers looked like in 2002 http://tr.im/sup9 (per http://tr.im/supo via @brunoboutot) »
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February 8, 2012
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