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May 13, 2009, 6:20 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Sri Lanka, McClatchy, Dana Milbank’s lede by “zippypinhead1”

How small news sites have stepped in to cover Sri Lankan war zones too dangerous for mainstream journalists http://tr.im/lfYj »

The Miami Herald and other McClatchy papers charge an extra quarter for their TV sections. Not many pay http://tr.im/leoh »

What rights do you waive when you upload a video? On YouTube and Vimeo, a lot http://tr.im/ldTb »

@DaveWiner says “PBS could become a cause for the web” by supporting BitTorrent distribution of its content http://tr.im/lbZv »

Washington Post’s Dana Milbank turns to the crowd: his lede today was written by reader “zippypinhead1” http://tr.im/lfR4 »

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