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: WSJ lawyers trained on stipple-art copier, Digg ad network aims to monetize Digg traffic spikes, The Onion finds a growth area for newspapers
Not exactly AP v. Shepard Fairey: Wall Street Journal sicking lawyers on artist who uses their dot drawings http://tr.im/BLaP »
Digg’s forthcoming ad network aims to monetize traffic spikes from, well, Digg http://tr.im/BL4w »
New ad unit from @hc‘s Blogads, aimed at political causes, lets readers tweet directly from the ad http://tr.im/BOlP »
35% of newspapers charge a premium for their Thanksgiving editions. Why? The ads and coupons http://tr.im/BKXa »
Ouch from The Onion: “Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date” http://tr.im/BLEh »
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February 9, 2012
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