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: Targeted ads on Kindle, sketch of a “storystreaming platform,” liveblogging the liveblogs of Michael Jackson’s memorial
Patents filed by Amazon foretell targeted ads on the Kindle. Also: buy a paper copy, get the ebook free http://tr.im/rdUz »
“10 inspirational New York Times multimedia and interactive features” http://tr.im/reZi (by @10000Words) »
Four years ago, I wrote about the use of cell phone cameras in coverage of the London subway bombings http://tr.im/rgeD »
Building on @dan360man‘s idea, @ksablan sketches what a “storystreaming platform” for news might look like http://tr.im/rfCx »
How Chinese citizens are circumventing the government’s censorship of Twitter http://tr.im/reej »
Well, I suppose it had to happen: Wall Street Journal liveblogs the liveblogs of the Jackson memorial http://tr.im/rgOs »
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February 9, 2012
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