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  1. worth a look: the Guardian's live blog of today's decision in the German Bundestag on a second aid package for Greece: bit.ly/wIblHS
  2. Great: Germany's leading female journalists demand women's quota of 30 % for all leadership positions in media by 2017. bit.ly/xXO3TY
  3. "The difficulty is not so much developing new ideas as escaping the old ones" - J. M. Keynes
  4. John Paton, CEO of the now second-largest US newspaper conglomerate: "Put the digital people in charge - of everything" bit.ly/wLzM9F
  5. @BendlerBlogger touché
  6. Springer tritt noch mal nach: bit.ly/yK46IU #wulff
  7. The Washington Post is experimenting with personalized headlines: bit.ly/wyoy8Q Explainer: tcrn.ch/wkuGag via @ampique
  8. Yes, 'Transparency is the new objectivity', but being transparent about doing pr as a journalist doesn't fix the problem.
  9. @f_ranft I wouldn't say it is an issue of local papers. But traditionally minded IT-deptmts tend to reject cloud services.
  10. ZEIT ONLINE asked @jeffjarvis to write a letter to a child born in 2012, to be read in 2040. Here's his text: bit.ly/yY0ykk
  11. Der geschätzte Kollege @bedenkentraeger twittert ab sofort unter seinem Klarnamen: @kaibiermann
  12. #datajournalism by ZEIT ONLINE: Your place in Germany's aging population, depending on your year of birth. zeit.de/wissen/alterss… #geb2012
  13. Augmented Reality: Google to sell heads-up data display glasses by year's end j.mp/xDfGBt
  14. The suggested digital "right to be forgotten" is a threat to free speech. blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/20…
  15. Fazit nach vier Monaten Tageszeitungslektüre via App: Liegt es an mir oder waren die Headlines schon immer so unverständlich?
  16. @binderstefan ja, denkanstoeße nur ein einziges mal äußern zu müssen, um damit schon die erhoffte debatte anzustoßen..wouldn't that be nice.
  17. Meine Laudatio für Gerlinde Hinterleitner von @derstandardat - "Medienmanagerin des Jahres", Gala letzte Nacht in Wien. derstandard.at/1328507798774/…
  18. I really enjoyed meeting friends and colleagues of @derStandardat tonight. You rock. - Congrats to Gerlinde, Media Manager of the Year.