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: USA Today’s Newsdeck, ESPN’s pre-roll ads on YouTube, MetaFilter’s 10th birthday
USA Today plays a wildcard with Newsdeck, a new interface for their content http://tr.im/shsU How do you like it? »
Call it the Skirmish Near UMich: Vibrant competition for eyeballs, advertisers among Ann Arbor news sites http://tr.im/siTb »
The founder of wildly popular @BreakingNews is 19 years old… and once sold a bin Laden tape to Reuters http://tr.im/skmj »
ESPN brings pre-roll ads to YouTube with its new channel and custom player. An example: http://tr.im/sir7 »
TMZ, which just brought its ad sales in-house, has annual revenues estimated at $15m, similar to Politico http://tr.im/sh7J »
Good morning, and happy 10th birthday to MetaFilter! Here’s a great piece on the web’s conversation leader http://tr.im/sh3W »
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February 9, 2012
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