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10:30 AM ET, June 13, 2010

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Nick Bilton / Bits:
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains  —  If you're reading this blog post on a computer, mobile phone or e-reader please stop what you're doing immediately.  You could be making yourself stupid.  And whatever you do, don't click on the links in this article.
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Tweet!  Tweet!  Tweet!  —  I vowed I would never become a Twit.  Now I have Tweeted nearly 10,000 Tweets.  I said Twitter represented the end of civilization.  It now represents a part of the civilization I live in.  I said it was impossible to think of great writing in terms of 140 characters.
Felix Salmon / MediaFile:
Zach Kouwe fired again  —  In February, a NYT blogger, Zachery Kouwe, was fired for plagiarism.  The proximate cause of the firing was a complaint from the WSJ, but he'd had run-ins with other publications in the past, including nicking a memo from Dealbreaker without attribution.
David Cohen / WebNewser:
The Beautiful Game: Social Media Suits Up for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa  —  With 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa set to kick off about one hour after this post, Twitter and Facebook — which meant nothing to the average soccer fan during 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany — are donning their jerseys and painting their faces.
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Keith Richman / AdAge:
How Nike and Pepsi Hijacked the World Cup
Discussion: B&C, rbr.com, Speakeasy, Guardian and Reuters
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Now in Blogs, Product Placement  —  Welcome to quid pro post.  —  When a marketer representing Absolut Vodka first offered to sponsor her annual blog festival, Louise Crawford guessed how the other bloggers might react.  —  “Some of them are going to call me a sellout,” Ms. Crawford remembered thinking.
Discussion: Gawker and City Room
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Overdosing on social networking media  —  (Chris Jackson /, Chris Jackson / / February 2, 2008)  —  It's hard not to get irritated with a company that urges you to share all sorts of things but makes it hard for you to say who's part of the party.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:
What Does Facebook Like Do For Blog Traffic?  —  The Typepad team have just published a graph of referrals from Facebook since they made Facebook Like available as an option for their users:  —  Now, admittedly, this is only from a few thousand blogs, and the figures are relative rather than absolute …
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
For The Post, anonymous sources remain a problem  —  Last month, a story about conflicts between parents and childless adults began with an anecdote about an unleashed puppy pestering a toddler in a District park.  After the child's father complained, the dog's owner told The Post that parents …
Antonina Jedrzejczak / The Wire:
National Geographic Admits Photo Fraud (Plus: 10 Major Photoshopping Scandals)  —  Recently, National Geographic ran a photo by William Lascelles that had won the magazine's February 2010 Your Shot competition.  —  That would be the picture on the right, the authenticy of which some seem readers called …
Business Week:
Spotify: Why Europe's Hit Music Site Isn't Playing the U.S.  —  Big labels have blocked Spotify—the first site that's “sexy without having the Apple name on it”—from offering streaming music  —  Sweden has a new music export, and it's attracting an audience way broader than an ABBA greatest hits album.
Steve Buttry / Pursuing the Complete Community …:
New York Times protects its readers from reading about “tweets”  —  Self-anointed guardians of the English language show an amazing, amusing lack of respect for the language they purport to protect.  —  Phil Corbett, Standards Editor of the New York Times, decreed this week that tweet was not …
Discussion: The Wardman Wire and Slate
Robin Sloan / Snarkmarket:
The Atlantic rides again (again)  —  Back in college, the Atlantic was basically my introduction to the world of ideas.  I still remember reading this classic article by James Fallows and feeling whole new lobes of understanding come online.  This was policy, not politics.  Macro, not micro.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Administration Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press  —  WASHINGTON — Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convinced that the government's eavesdroppers were squandering hundreds of millions …
Discussion: Romenesko
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
N.Y.P.D. Can Keep Its Secrets: 2004 Convention Arrests Remain Mysterious
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MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CLERGY ABUSE SCANDAL
Discussion: International Media and Romenesko
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
ABC Reporter Hassled By BP: Days After Thad Allen Directed Open …
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