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Nov. 8, 2010, 3 p.m.

Popular on Twitter: Ambinder leaves blogging, Patch keeps hiring, lots of coverage from the New Media Women’s Entrepreneur Summit

[Early every afternoon Eastern time, we’ll be highlighting the most-talked-about links in the future-of-news corner of Twitter. What are news nerds buzzing about? Here are today’s top 10, gathered via The Hourly Press. It’s like being on Twitter all day, without actually having to be on Twitter all day. —Josh]

  • Goodbye, blogging: Marc Ambinder bids farewell to the medium
  • Poynter has a live chat about using an iPhone as a reporting tool
  • Patch hires 600 journalists in its bid to cover local news
  • Greg Linch: liveblogging the New Media Women Entrepreneurship Summit
  • Meet The Washington Post’s new iPad app
  • OpenFile gives an interactive spin to Remembrance Day
  • What would energy-efficient news look like?
  • ONA announces its new community engagement manager
  • “We also agree that Patrick Stewart is a handsome man…”
  • New Media Women Entrepreneurship Summit in DC: the livestream
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