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: European ad exchange takes on DoubleClick, NYT makes videos shareable, BBC online video views up 25% in 4 months
Mobile data traffic expected to grow by 40 times in the next 5 years, video a key reasonhttp://j.mp/drlGLT »
Voice of San Diego “engagement editor” sparks interesting comment thread. Should reporters do this job themselves? http://j.mp/arLdyK »
Are you willing to pay for an app? iPhone users are the most wiling (57%), then Blackberry users (33%), Android (16%) http://j.mp/9FhpkJ »
BBC online video news views up 25% in four months, comscore study findshttp://j.mp/cHq6zF »
Self-publishing authors will get a crack at the iPad too, thanks to deals with Smashwords and Lulu http://j.mp/aaaEDS »
NYT videos that appear within articles are now shareable via embed code http://j.mp/8ZaWTQ(via @davidaKaplan) »
European ad exchange launches to take on Google’s DoubleClick, Yahoo as a more localized competitor http://j.mp/9sqPxK »
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February 8, 2012
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