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Dec. 7, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: ESPN launches women’s sports site, What Tumblr’s outage means and franchising The Onion

Why The Onion is franchising and what it means for its web and print presence http://nie.mn/h2OLZD »

Don’t expect to be able to game our paywall like, ahem, other newspapers, says NYT digital head http://nie.mn/dGt69y »

Reconsidering Patch: Success means a new approach to local journalism, failure means a cautionary tale http://nie.mn/dQC1l3 »

WaPo on others paid content experiments: “We’re quite willing to be followers on this front” http://nie.mn/i7tvxL »

Tumblr lives again, but consider why it’s outage matters to the web, and the world http://nie.mn/eZCRwK »

Flipboard, Instapaper, Twitter and Facebook: How have reading habits changed in 2010? http://nie.mn/gETGMj »

Redistricting, now more fun thanks to .@Sunlightlab’s “Better Draw a District” http://nie.mn/hC61vY »

Mediaite empire to expand into mogul watch, tech for women and media jobs http://nie.mn/dZO7FL »

ESPN launches espnW.com, a sports blog about womens sports by women writers, athletes and more http://nie.mn/ekye0N »

Choice of words: Some news orgs no longer calling WikiLeaks a “whistleblower” http://nie.mn/hubrjP »

Survey of US smartphone owners finds more than half expect to use phone more to access news next year http://nie.mn/gtr1yD »

The Guardian is liveblogging the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the extradition process http://nie.mn/hdudnP »

 
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