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Pew data: Facebook has room for passives as well as actives
A typical Facebook user is acted upon more than he acts — a smaller cadre of power users do most of the heavy lifting.
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Justin Ellis    January 12, 2012
What would a Google News Plus Your World look like?
If Google wants to add a personal component to discovering the world’s information, it shouldn’t be long till Google News gets more social.
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Gina Masullo Chen    October 3, 2011
Like them or not, the latest changes to Facebook offer big ideas for news orgs
Facebook’s controversial new updates offer news outlets an opportunity: to bring the lessons of Facebook to their own platforms.
Andrew Phelps    July 6, 2011
Members Only: The Chronicle of Philanthropy builds a LinkedIn community by keeping people out
Megan Garber    June 16, 2011
Are Americans becoming more isolated from each other? Maybe, Pew says, but don’t blame Facebook
Megan Garber    February 8, 2011
Mashable, tackling info overload, launches a Follow function keyed to user networks and interests
Megan Garber    December 8, 2010
Nicholas Christakis on the networked nature of Twitter
Megan Garber    October 4, 2010
A movie with its own backchannel: How “The Social Network” shows our reweaving of conversations
Laura McGann    September 23, 2010
Peter Rojas on how a move away from blogging is a return to its roots
Jonathan Stray    June 25, 2010
The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community
Jason Fry    May 7, 2010
Why Twitter looks like a social network but feels like news media
Laura McGann    April 21, 2010
Washington Post tool integrates Facebook with its site
Mark Coddington    March 5, 2010
This Week in Review: Surveying the online news scene, web-first mags, and Facebook patents its feed
Zachary M. Seward    October 2, 2009
The New York Times navigates standards in a new age
Dan Froomkin    May 28, 2009
Dan Froomkin: How to better use our biggest assets, beat reporters
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How NPR drove traffic to a local station by geotargeting stories on Facebook
When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.
Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections on the new KNC 2.0
This Week in Review: Facebook’s future and the open web, and finding balance on breaking news
Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
KNC 2.0: The Knight News Challenge revamps to quicken the pace of journalism innovation
The Knight Foundation is opening up its contest by changing its rules and shortening the gestation period for ideas.
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The Wall Street Journal covers Fashion Week fashionably, finding uses for Pinterest and Instagram
The Journal has found the perfect story for two image-heavy social networks.
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The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
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What Charlie Sheen taught Salon about being original
The online magazine shifted its emphasis from aggregation to original content and saw its traffic jump.
OpenNews aims to satiate demand for news-savvy coders… or is it code-savvy journalists?
News organizations are sold on the need for coding skills — but but now there aren’t enough developers to fill jobs.
Anticipation and expectation: Did Esquire’s story trailer work?
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Reuters productizes social media through Social Pulse
The new effort tries to package raw social data in ways that even an exec could get into.

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