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: Gawker crowdsources Russian translation of GQ article, the open-source digital camera, newsprint prices down 40% this year
GQ is trying to keep its bombshell Putin story out of Russia, so Gawker is crowdsourcing a translation http://tr.im/xTf7 »
Here’s one tool I never thought could go open-source: the digital camera http://tr.im/xTKK »
Vietnam arrests online journalists covering the government’s touchy relations with China http://tr.im/xSvS »
Forget newspaper companies. Pity the pulp and paper industry: Newsprint prices have dropped 40% this year http://tr.im/xSig »
Here are seven tools to superpower your browser for online reporting http://tr.im/xSfx »
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February 8, 2012
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