Mediagazer: Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. (Farhad Manjoo/Slate)

8:35 PM ET, March 10, 2011

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Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. — Once or twice a week, I get a letter taking me to task for Slate's commenting policy. The reader wants to tell me that I suck, but he doesn't want to log in to Slate's comment system using his credentials for Facebook, Google, Yahoo, or Twitter.

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Wall Street Journal:

Hulu Plans to Shrink Its Board — Hulu LLC is planning to shrink its board, according to people familiar with the matter, shaking up the Web-video venture's governance as it hashes out its future within the media business. — As part of the shift, Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger …

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Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

The Guardian's Paul Lewis on crowd-sourcing investigative journalism with Twitter … Last week I attended an event at the Royal Statistical Society looking at data and news sourcing, and one of the panel sessions was about crowd-sourcing using the internet.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The Race to Build the “Daily Me” Continues — Ever since the web first started to become mainstream, there have been attempts to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like or are interested in (does anyone remember PointCast?).

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Steve Rosenbaum / The Huffington Post:

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