The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
For people under 24, the use of e-mail tumbled more than 30% in the last year nie.mn/y5KNWl 
Links on Twitter: Exclusivity and community at the Financial Times, slideshow of Gawker Media’s offices, Google’s magazine newsstand
How exclusivity built a community at the FT’s finance blog, which gets 500k monthly uniques http://tr.im/EkF2 »
The new newsroom: Great slideshow of Gawker Media’s “steampunk” offices http://tr.im/EkLb (HT @carr2n) »
The new Chicago News Co-Op needs much more funding to cover costs. Editor paying himself $0 in first year http://tr.im/EkU3 »
In Twitter lists, @megangarber sees a “codification of the media’s increasing openness to…collaboration” http://tr.im/ElQk »
Off the record: TPM publisher Josh Marshall lunched with Obama and other journos today. Salmon was served http://tr.im/EmO4 »
Google creates a “newsstand” of magazine archives in its collection, including LIFE, New York, Mother Jones
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