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: China has harsh words for Google, Ex-Microsoft exec launches ad exchange, influential tweeters don’t retweet much
RT @berkmancenter: Early registration for “Journalism’s Digital Transition” conference ends 3/24. Register now! http://www.omln.org/conf … »
“For us, citizen is a not legal description, but rather a state of mind…” http://j.mp/axjtmX »
Read Write Web’s most influential Twitterers retweet fewer than 30% of the timehttp://j.mp/ar86e6 »
Surfing the web, checking email, listening to music outpace “read newspapers” in survey of potential iPad usage http://j.mp/cS3s3a »
Soulja Boy and Kim Kardashian can pull in up to $10,000 per tweet. (Very close to what we rake in here at the Lab) http://j.mp/a2Sre1 »
New tools of the investigative reporting trade: Twitter, blogs, comment threadshttp://j.mp/9dkdNg »
Former Microsoft exec launches new ad exchange, The Trade Desk, with $2.5 million in financing http://j.mp/9m3NYe »
Let the ereader price wars begin! Sony lowers cost of its Pocker Reader to $169http://j.mp/anX256 »
China has harsh words for Google, but hasn’t blocked Google.cnhttp://j.mp/a6Ey8l »
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February 9, 2012
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