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May 6, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Flipboard usage soars, Dow address Safehouse security and getting into the Obama/Osama slip ups

The parallels of news and airlines: Would you rather fly business class or coach with your news? http://nie.mn/jTpBdf »

Dow Jones has released a statement on improving the security of its Safehouse http://nie.mn/k9dzWA »

The Austin American Statesman’s @RobQuig is leaving to become a journalism professor at UT this fall http://nie.mn/lq1E9u »

YouTube breaks down how they deal with the sometime graphic videos out of the Middle East http://nie.mn/mApcx1 »

Our friends at the Berkman Center have relaunched the Media Cloud tool for analyzing news media http://nie.mn/k5Zf4y »

Book publishers are partnering with AOL to get into the recommendation engine business http://nie.mn/m0CYvl »

American University has a new 11 month fellowship to study & work at the Washington Post http://nie.mn/jVH3SV »

"Had his name been Osama Tin Laden, we likely would have seen a lot fewer Obama/Osama mixups." http://nie.mn/jlu83a »

A Day in the Life of the Columbia J-school as seen on Posterous http://nie.mn/iOBFXx »

PSA: Bloomberg is looking for a media reporter in New York http://nie.mn/kQyiAk »

Google is introducing a feature to let users peek into local businesses http://nie.mn/laV79f »

The NY Times R&D team has developed a tool to corral all that location data on your iPhone http://nie.mn/l8kIgf »

The Flips are up: Flipboard says its daily usage is up big, 8-9 million "flips" a day http://nie.mn/keThEj »

News copyright enforcer Righthaven has hired one of the attorneys from the AP’s Shepard Fairey case http://nie.mn/kCIYgw »

Tweet charts! Check it out, the WSJ used a bar chart in a Tweet on unemployment data http://nie.mn/m891yZ »

What happens after cable TV service becomes just another app? http://nie.mn/lf7tSn »

Could Amazon be the only company to make a real rival for the iPad? http://nie.mn/jcDwBT »

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