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: Spot.Us as platform not news organization, NYT’s Bay Area edition launches tomorrow, stats on Black Friday online ads
Why Spot.Us is a platform, not a news org. Good interview with @digidave as he mulls eastward expansion http://tr.im/BUjs »
New York Times launching San Francisco section *tomorrow* http://tr.im/BSw8 »
Behind NYT’s Bay Area section (and accelerated launch) is a quiet war with WSJ for national print dominance http://tr.im/wyru »
Why teeny-weeny Breakingviews is worth the same as BusinessWeek http://tr.im/BVuS »
New media war: The Daily Beast’s goal is to match The Huffington Post’s traffic by 2012 election http://tr.im/BSk4 »
Clickthrough rates for online ads are 27% lower on Black Friday, but that’s not the whole story http://tr.im/BSc4 »
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February 9, 2012
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