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March 10, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Aggregation as robbery, what makes for a good curator and putting an end to anonymous comments

Caught between the worlds of content farms and journalism, How Stuff Works walks a fine line http://nie.mn/g7cEh2 »

"Good curators know where to find interesting things because they know the paths" http://nie.mn/eFHgVB »

The NYT, ProPublica and NPR are among the big winners in SND’s revamped digital news design awards http://nie.mn/i3x9Mf »

The newest edition of Flipboard is here, it’s faster and it got a lot more social http://nie.mn/hMM62V »

On the question of whether journalism schools are rising to the challenge of the digital age http://nie.mn/hNc8P0 »

For the health of the Internet the time has come for a great cleansing of anonymous commenters http://nie.mn/gdgDPu »

The National Journal has launched its new iPad app and its free http://nie.mn/hni4oD »

If aggregation is journalism, and aggregation is robbery, is journalism robbery? http://nie.mn/hWy0V2 »

"Individuals on the web in a crowd seem to behave like a flock of starlings" http://nie.mn/hGi9AD »

Folks! Egypt is over and The Daily has moved on and found the Richest Dog in South Dakota http://nie.mn/fkDeTE »

Nick Denton, Danah Boyd and Mike McCue of Flipboard are some of the speakers at @RWW 2Way Summit and http://nie.mn/eaiROb »

Apple plans to Keep Austin Wired, opening a pop-up Apple store just for #SXSW http://nie.mn/efUQz3 »

"As to which outlets I couldn’t live without? Individual people matter more than outlets nowadays." http://nie.mn/dNUGSS »

CNN and Time are launching a new global news blog featuring Fareed Zakaria and other contributors http://nie.mn/fUposN »

Some magazine publishers are finding their iPad editions can’t keep readers attention http://nie.mn/i5xGxB »

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The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers
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