Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: Hacking tools for non-developers, copyright law in Europe, iStockphoto on cover of Time
Hacking, yes, but no coding required: @simonw lists 11 tools for non-developers to build news applications http://tr.im/upNV »
Yes, the Sacramento Bee’s 49ers blog is popular. But its beatblog on state workers has double the pageviews http://tr.im/uoXy »
RT @citmedialaw: European Court of Justice rules that eleven-word snippets can infringe copyright http://tr.im/uq67 »
Time spent on the Internet appears to have leveled off in the U.S. at 12 hours per week http://tr.im/urqV »
For a recent cover, TIME used an amateur’s shot on iStockphoto. Cost: $30 http://tr.im/uoyg (via @fimoculous) »
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