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Nov. 12, 2009, 7:04 a.m.

Links on Twitter: Google to let users skip pre-rolls, visualization of CNN’s traffic since 1995, draft logo for NYT’s Bay Area Blog

Google thinks it can make pre-roll ads on YouTube more valuable by letting users skip them http://tr.im/EJRH »

As Phoenix daily folds, a diagnosis: too hasty in migrating from paid print copies to free to web http://tr.im/EKnr »

Beautiful visualization of CNN.com’s traffic, 1995-2009 http://tr.im/EL0T (via @daringfireball»

Current TV abandoning its old bailiwick, short-form video, for “30-60 minute formats”http://tr.im/EL9J (HT @tigerbeat»

Less than one-tenth of 1% of NYTImes.com readers use TimesExtra, which links to outside content, says @jimschachter at #newbiz»

NYT’s @silencematters works on a logo for new Bay Area blog: “Does this look like San Francisco?” http://twitpic.com/p5gjv »

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