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  1. What to do if your news crew shows up for a story on a bear sighting in Cleveland - but the bear's gone? http://bit.ly/1abXxC Watch it all.
  2. Fred Wilson (a smart VC and blogger) steps back into the Free debate and swats Gladwell aside with a flick of his wrist http://bit.ly/Y26QH
  3. ... wonder how the Toronto Star is going to avoid similar issues with their newl 'Speakers Bureau' or the Globe with their glitterati cruise
  4. WaPo claims 'pay to meet beat reporters/editors' event was misrepresented but it's pretty hard to mistake the stench rising off this one...
  5. Leak forces Washington Post to cancel plans to sell health care lobbyists access to health reporters at $25,000 a head! http://bit.ly/149aKA
  6. Malcolm Gladwell sez Chris "Free, Long Tail" Anderson ain't wearing no clothes. Techno utopians: Start Your Engines! http://bit.ly/11mDBO
  7. re Basens cit-j doc: the journo 1.0 vs journo 2.0 divide is artifical, shallow and ultimately a straw man - time to move on people, move on
  8. Just heard Ira Basen's citizen journalism doc - competent enough, but it felt like old Newsweek - a generalist's summary, no new analysis
  9. @Mutanto - OK, bad times make 4 better tales but ... twitlonger?! That's like using a 2nd panel for a one panel cartoon. Shame I say, shame
  10. As (US) analog TV died, Liz Gannest used her Flip video cam to pay homage to Sony's ultra-portable TV - the Watchman http://bit.ly/OAMes
  11. @mathewi -Thanks for the link to the piece by Matt Mullenweg, what a great look inside his life (http://bit.ly/qKHDE )
  12. Conference Board of Canada caught plagiarizing report on copyright (via @michaelgeist) http://bit.ly/18W7ll
  13. Former Cdn Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier starts a video blog with a stunning "how not to video blog" lesson-Take notes http://bit.ly/wdDGy
  14. Guinness Book of Records sued by world's most litigious man for naming him the world's most litigious man (via Fark) http://bit.ly/13Ck3T
  15. OK, its not a new business model for news on the web - but it's a hell of a lot more fun: Winston - the new puppy-http://twitpic.com/5c36v
  16. @howardowens Re: Surgery - Howard, best of luck. As a journo with poor vision, I've always felt my eyes were my achille's heel. Take care
  17. RT @julien: Seriously, this is the most incredible use for Reddit ever -- http://www.reddit.com/r/tod... (via @mathewi)
  18. Detroit Free Press launches 2 hr morning tv news show, 5-7am (heavy on weather and traffic). Not webcast - but local TV http://bit.ly/pplky
  19. Big Kindle (Kindle DX) has deal with 3 newspapers (NYT, Boston Globe, SFChron) to offer deal on device with subscription http://bit.ly/VnwPu
  20. RT @davewiner: Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries. Andrew Keen should like this http://tr.im/kDRy (Ouch.)