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: Google quietly introduces Twitter to ads, NPR hires “chief people officer,” finding public domain video
Does the @fivethirtyeight news http://j.mp/95DBtO mean the death of the amateur blogosphere? (via @clinthendler) http://j.mp/cTcYhZ »
NPR hires a “Chief People Officer” — a title “used at more progressive organizations” (via @acarvin) http://j.mp/9WolCR »
Slightly more than half, 51%, of all posts on the blogosphere are written by women http://j.mp/ag5VdJ »
Austin American Statesman experiments with geolocation service Gowalla to help readers explore their city http://j.mp/bZIrUC »
Is that video you want to use in the public domain? Here’s how to tell, and where to find more http://j.mp/a28nAM »
Google quietly brings Twitter feeds to display ads, allowing a handful of advertisers to dynamically pull in their tweets http://j.mp/bqmxBr »
Publishers smile: companies are paying up to 5 times more to place ads on iPad applications than regular websites http://j.mp/b2hwB3 »
Is Demand Media a content farm or a domain harvester? CEO talks about his mysterious biz plan http://j.mp/coqDYF »
NYT launches a staff-curated city guide and checkin tool for the iPhone http://j.mp/aeciPs »
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February 8, 2012
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