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Popular on Twitter: Linkedin launches social news, Rosen on NPR and Keller not a fan of aggregators

By Hourly Press March 10, 2011, 3:30 p.m.

Bill Keller likens hiring good writers at Huffpo to fancy chefs at Hooters

Jay Rosen’s assessment of NPR’s firing of Vivan Schiller

The etymology of the word Churlish

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Tim Armstrong has high hopes for the future of AOL

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Why social business news is good for Linkedin

Why the time for anonymous commenters must end

All the Aggregation that’s fit to Aggregate

“I felt so . . . aggregated.”

POSTED March 10, 2011, 3:30 p.m.

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