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There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)
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March 3, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Daily downloads, WordPress is DDoSed, the case against Kachingle

What a wifi network might look like if we could see the signals http://nie.mn/fmN4QA »

RT @mathewi: Arianna Huffington just announced at #pc2011 that AOL has hired media reporter Michael Calderone away from Yahoo »

Bing launches Bing Deals, aggregating offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, and more (via @AntDeRosa) http://nie.mn/fVzleq »

Code name “Panda”: the inside story of Google’s anti-content-farm search update http://nie.mn/g9fcNR »

The Daily publisher @clayman at #pc2011: Downloads have been "in the hundreds of thousands" so far (declines to give more detail) »

"You can’t build a company around behavior that you wish existed": @bradflora makes a case against Kachingle http://nie.mn/fYuevM »

WordPress suffers a DDoS attack—"the largest and most sustained attack we’ve seen in our 6 year history" http://nie.mn/hoAjWw »

DemandMedia acquires CoverItLive http://nie.mn/gvXWF3 »

This exists: http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/ »

Right now on the #pc2011 livestream: "The New Networks." Next up: @felixsalmon interviews @nicknotned http://nie.mn/gyfSjN »

The Times Union shutters two bureaus, refashioning reporters as "mobile journalists" (via @iwantmedia) http://nie.mn/hCFM95 »

"Our social value is an emergent property of the network we are situated in" http://nie.mn/hyljMm »

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