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  1. The founder of wildly popular @BreakingNews is 19 years old... and once sold a bin Laden tape to Reuters http://tr.im/skmj
  2. For the afternoon crowd: Why political reporting is like an audience clapping — and which news orgs get ahead of the memes http://tr.im/sha1
  3. Thanks to @blake for noting that The Onion and FastCompany have used Drupal for a while. Others in that post are switching, saving money.
  4. To cut costs, publishers from The Onion to FastCompany are switching their CMS to Drupal http://tr.im/sjRI (via @gillianmae)
  5. Call it the Skirmish near UMich: Vibrant competition for eyeballs, advertisers among Ann Arbor news sites http://tr.im/siTb
  6. ESPN brings pre-roll ads to YouTube with its new channel and custom player. An example: http://tr.im/sir7
  7. @jayrosen_nyu @Chanders @jny2 @scottros It's true. I wish there were a way to measure quality reporting that *doesn't* catch on — and why.
  8. @jny2 @Chanders Proportions for the two lines are measured separately. Green line is blog mentions over total blog mentions.
  9. @jny2 @chanders Heartbeat chart measures blog vol over total vol (each hour, separately). Other chart measures vol over total vol (all time)
  10. TMZ, which just brought its ad sales in-house, has annual revenues estimated at $15m, similar to Politico http://tr.im/sh7J
  11. USA Today plays a wildcard with Newsdeck, a new interface for their content http://tr.im/shsU How do you like it?
  12. Review of the new Financial Times iPhone app, which includes a currency converter http://tr.im/shqq
  13. Which news outlets are ahead of the curve in reporting political memes? Find out here: http://tr.im/sha1
  14. Good morning, and happy 10th birthday to MetaFilter! Here's a great piece on the web's conversation leader http://tr.im/sh3W
  15. I wish one of these would go to court, but alas: Associated Press settles "hot news" suit against AHN Media http://tr.im/sbCV
  16. In news, memes spread more like a heartbeat than a virus — or, why the Times is wrong on blogs vs. MSM http://tr.im/sa3l
  17. @Federated_Media Hello! Nice to meet you, too. Interested in your tweet-aggregating sites. How do you push traffic to them?
  18. On the ethics of linking, quoting, and "what she said": Reuters blogger @felixsalmon offers his views http://tr.im/s8VH
  19. Whom does Matt Drudge link to most? http://tr.im/s8AO A tireless researcher scraped 171,717 page updates to find out.
  20. Correction: That "small-town Vermont daily" from an earlier tweet is, um, actually in New Hampshire. Thanks to @MaggyCounsel for the fix.