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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 18, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Pulitzer time arrives, Flickr users love their iPhones and inside Righthaven

The Breakup: Allbritton will debut a new WJLA.com and revamped TBD.com soon http://nie.mn/hDLrp6 »

PSA: GigaOM is looking for a news editor http://nie.mn/h7n2mX »

The complete Pulitzer list is online: http://bit.ly/hXDDbr »

"I told Andrew that this is not the stuff of movies. You have middle-aged people typing in cubes with headsets on" http://nie.mn/fmacpE »

Koch Industries decided to take out online ads to refute a Center for Public Integrity story http://nie.mn/i2iDKk »

The reach of the Explainer: Eshra7.com is a new Egyptian site that aims to explain the news http://nie.mn/fDS9ds »

The .@knightmozilla news innovation challenge begins with video, then improving comments http://nie.mn/gzgDcU »

The second most popular camera with Flickr users? The iPhone 4 http://nie.mn/fD4Sya »

A judge has opened up copyright enforcer Righthaven’s contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal http://nie.mn/eclSnd »

The computer wore tennis shoes: A robot rises to Deadspin’s challenge and writes a sports story http://nie.mn/gRC2md »

The FCC added a $100,000 prize for its Apps for Communities contest http://nie.mn/gaKyUq »

Demand Media says Google’s search changes has reduced traffic to their sites http://nie.mn/e3uR96 »

The AP plans to change its fee to newspapers to now include digital and print audiences http://nie.mn/fnx6kb »

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