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: A digital native discovers the iPad, orgs team up to help journos report the stimulus, WaPo adds a conservative news blog
Well, this is just amazing: a 2.5-year-old uses an iPad for the first time (via @jennydeluxe) http://j.mp/9Tdd8P »
Chase Bank paid $1 million to sponsor NYT’s iPad app http://j.mp/av6Enk »
Nice! @ProPublica, @APME, @sunfoundation team up to help journos make sense of stimulus data http://j.mp/bJQVxF »
WaPo launches new conservative politics blog, adding @daveweigel, another young reporter-blogger, to its online team http://j.mp/cVYEnH »
Combatting claims it manipulates data for paying businesses, Yelp now lets you see user comments it deleted http://j.mp/aSd4Fq »
Check out Nieman Reports latest issue. It’s on the future of photography http://j.mp/aG9vpt »
More details of the HP Slate, the Windows 7-based tablet, have leaked http://j.mp/8ZAGBY »
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February 9, 2012
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