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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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April 12, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Bloggers sue HuffPost, Boston.com outsources comments

Overwhelmed by trolls and troublemakers, Boston.com outsources comment moderation http://nie.mn/gZrfnS »

NPR’s @ombudsman thinks think tanks are inadequately identified in stories http://nie.mn/dFLFYx »

Our colleagues at @ShorensteinCtr redesigned their site, with academic materials and reference articles for journos http://nie.mn/gA28Oe »

RT @romenesko: LIVE CHAT NOW: What are investors looking for in journalism startups? http://journ.us/idX5hy »

More data candy: an infographic of infographics http://nie.mn/dK3ZPP via @brainpicker #meta »

Google and @eyebeamnyc challenged designers to visualize how tax dollars are spent http://nie.mn/dHmQlS via @jfkeefe »

Pro tip: Get a local number from Google Voice for sources far away — or the other way around http://nie.mn/evAgP3 »

ASU’s Cronkite school will produce an interactive, syndicated TV news program http://nie.mn/fYJyzE via @tackable »

Flip, the dead-simple video camera popular with journalists, is dead http://nie.mn/hE9a0T »

HuffPost bloggers are suing for back-pay http://nie.mn/hmohKh »

Chad Ress visited the sites of stimulus projects and photographed them http://nie.mn/gLxknH »

On this 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Wash Post is “live tweeting” the battle at Ft. Sumter http://nie.mn/fh26m6 »

The NYT has seen pageviews fall since erecting a paywall, according to one measurement http://nie.mn/eFDUK1 »

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