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Aug. 23, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: FCC ends the fairness doctrine, Twitter goes to London, earthquake!

Mozilla’s ambitious WebAPI project aims to standardize the mobile web, regardless of device or browser http://t.co/RP29l9L »

For better or for worse, it is becoming much easier for non-programmers to make web http://t.co/cBIzzL2 »

The New Yorker publishes a standalone ebook, “After 9/11,” for $7.99 on Kindle and Nook http://t.co/Ta9umhv via @wbezedwards »

RT @tristanwalker: that was quick…. http://t.co/WAbpSgg »

.@niemanstory’s latest “Why’s this so good?” — on a @NYTmag story from 1997 http://t.co/R3mK7jN »

The F.C.C. is axing the fairness doctrine, which mandates no viewpoint be excluded http://t.co/6b4Ysmq »

The Daily Dot is a small-town paper covering the communities of Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan, and Twitter http://t.co/Ms2IQmp »

What happens when Fox puts TV shows behind a delay-wall? Apparently people start pirating like crazy http://t.co/60KrhH3 »

Twitter will join Facebook for talks with the U.K. government about the riots http://t.co/rIIRK5k »

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