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June 8, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: MIT studies Twitter rumors, WSJ touts app subscribers and George Plimpton’s falconry video game

IRE is working with news developers to create a site to download and analyze Census data http://nie.mn/kt4aX7 »

Good for @GOOD: By traffic and social media, GOOD looks to be on the rise http://nie.mn/mD4hyL »

The book, film, and website experience that is "Welcome to Pine Point" http://nie.mn/jhoNrl »

Researchers at MIT are working on a tool that can ID how rumors are spread on Twitter http://nie.mn/jrGPkk »

NJ supreme court rules that message board users aren’t protected by shield laws http://nie.mn/kWCUNj »

More thoughts insight on the NY Observer’s new look from @espiers http://nie.mn/muOcI2 »

RT @jimbradysp: I’ll be discussing TBD & lessons learned in a Poynter webinar at 2pm ET today. Sign up! http://bit.ly/lbwNGQ »

RT @parisreview: George Plimpton video game? Why, yes! Play Plimpton’s Video Falconry here: http://tpr.ly/izQKey »

The WSJ says it has more than 200,000 app subscribers on phones, tablets and e-readers http://nie.mn/mS0ZAW »

In two years TV will really be available everywhere, say TV executives http://nie.mn/miSDW2 »

Houston, the psychic, the NYT and those bodies: When news alerts get ahead of the story http://nie.mn/kqkESw »

Big-time PSA: Columbia Journalism Review is looking for an Editor-in-Chief http://nie.mn/jSwjGn »

The BBC’s College of Journalism and POLIS are holding a conference on the media and accountability http://nie.mn/igGMLz »

DocumentCloud has been rolling out a better search and new ways to annotate and redact documents http://nie.mn/kRhWX7 »

Bloomberg’s head of digital talks about their recen redesign and how they use multimedia http://nie.mn/lJqCg1 »

Google has developed a system to track attribution of content that may affect ranking http://nie.mn/immb2D »

 
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