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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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June 6, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Apple’s announcement, mapping the news, the original hashtag

Got an hour to kill? Check out this utterly engrossing map of the world’s newspapers (via @carr2n) http://nie.mn/iOJw2V »

Remarkable @nytimesphoto images showcase the impressionistic beauty of the print newspaper http://nie.mn/l1Lfek »

PSA: @Storycorps is looking for a social media and press intern http://nie.mn/lkciow »

End-user innovation, FTW! The 2007 post proposing hashtags for Twitter (via @stevenbjohnson) http://nie.mn/kzjSp9 »

According to ShareThis data, Facebook accounts for 38% of sharing traffic on the web http://nie.mn/jOq8L0 »

Great post from @mathewi: Doubt about what Twitter is can lead to doubt about how it’s best used http://nie.mn/iCBeLV »

Internet, entitlement, backrubs: a witty entry into the “why wasn’t I consulted?” genre http://nie.mn/jgcieX »

Report: Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo is months away from a platform release in the US http://nie.mn/je6PsF »

Facebook replacing Google in search? Laughable, says @dannysullivan http://nie.mn/l7ZYTG »

This @carr2n interview, particularly the section discussing Twitter and @nytkeller, is fantastic http://nie.mn/jAA8M9 »

France bans the words “Twitter” and “Facebook” from its airwaves http://nie.mn/j2JOTB »

Here’s what Steve Jobs will (probably) announce during his WWDC keynote today: http://nie.mn/leI2xr »

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