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Feb. 15, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Measuring wordquakes on blogs, Apple’s subscription plan drops and using Xtranormal for news

How Stroome, the collaborative online video platform, was used in Egypt http://nie.mn/elNHZg »

Want to see Apple’s new subscription plan in action? Popular Science’s iPad app has it: http://nie.mn/hjbrbD »

Tom Curley on AP’s News Licensing Group: "We’re not trying to be journalism’s cop" http://nie.mn/fFWik4 »

CNN plans to recognize the best user-submitted stories in the first iReport Awards http://nie.mn/fHZdJ8 »

Students from Emerson and Northeastern will write for Boston.com "Your Town" site http://nie.mn/hO0uZf »

Could the share article buttons on stories have implications for copyright law? http://nie.mn/e7MxqW »

"Twitter deserves credit for allowing the development of a novel form of journalistic storytelling" http://nie.mn/gROQGa »

.@Mjenkins used Xtranormal to illustrate a story for TBD with excellent results http://nie.mn/gtTznB »

You retweet us! Survey finds traditional media is behind a lot of trending topics on Twitter http://nie.mn/i2fLaZ »

Journalist utility belt alert! A telephoto lens for your iPhone camera http://nie.mn/gDUCXB »

Sports Illustrated drops print-only subscription, offer "all access" combo that only includes Android http://nie.mn/dWjlY0 »

"With commoditized news, the lifespan of scoops is now so short that they don’t matter" http://nie.mn/gvMDyM »

Good news for people who liked the Gawker redesign! There’s a cloned WordPress theme called Qawker http://nie.mn/eicm9t »

How do you measure the impact of wordquakes on blogs? Yes, wordquakes. http://nie.mn/hCG7Ed »

Outbrain, makers of the engine that suggests stories on many websites, is planning to expand http://nie.mn/hMcKKw »

Apple reveals subscription plan: Publishers who want to sell subs also have to double down in iTunes store http://nie.mn/eWQxQb »

 
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