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Nieman Journalism Lab
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@niemanlab archives: July 6, 2009

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Jul
How Salon greeted Slate’s arrival in 1996 http://tr.im/r8Iy Critical of now-standard “meta-commentary,” summary (via http://tr.im/r8Pl
 
NYT reporters, racking up cell-phone bills like teens, are told: “Do not use Twitter via text messages” http://tr.im/r8mC 
 
Talking Points Memo gets its first outside funding: a six-figure investment by some venture capitalists http://tr.im/r7xo 
 
Map of the 1,200 citizen journalists covering federal stimulus projects for ProPublica http://tr.im/r5sr 
 
@ezraklein I think that’s exactly what you do, quite well and in the right spirit, on your blog. It’s a compliment! 
 
Targeting is the elusive holy grail of online advertising. Could Quantcast’s analytics crack that nut? http://tr.im/r4eZ 
 
On penguins and the freemium model for news http://tr.im/r3PG Roundup of reactions to @chr1sa‘s “Free” http://tr.im/r3Q3 
 
@ezraklein Thanks, and understood. I mean salonnière only as a fancy term for blogger — and to suggest the Post abused concept of salons. 
 
Great interview with West Seattle Blog, a hyperlocal success story, on how they work with local advertisers http://tr.im/r3KF 
 
Washington Post salonnière @ezraklein ruminates on the best way for his paper to host conferences http://tr.im/r3MG 
 
Behind launch of @Mediaite, “bootstrappy” media blog: @fimoculous explains horizontal design, slanted voice http://tr.im/r3Cp 
 
Good morning! Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia page received 1.24 million visits in first hour after his death http://tr.im/r3zZ