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Feb. 12, 2010, 6:01 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Amazon prime users might get free Kindles, GoogleAdsense switches up tactics, Pew finds difference between blog and MSM coverage this week

Google swings at Ask in buying Vark. Ask founder scoffs, “Q+A is the future of search…our current tech is unmatched” http://j.mp/9S0R4T »

John Harris of Politico on the one skill journos need now: “Find your distinctive value…and learn how to market that” http://j.mp/9yKvBv »

Pew finds 28% of news links on blogs Feb 1-5 were about or to Sally Jenkins’ piece on Tim Tebow’s anti-abortion ad http://j.mp/ciUfQ3 »

Google AdSense using hours of search information, rather than query-by-query, to deliver “more relevant ads” http://j.mp/9eL2lQ »

Do you use Amazon Prime (the $79 a year free shipping plan)? Amazon considers giving you a free Kindle http://j.mp/dp76ap »

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