Mediagazer: NY Times Clarifies: Tweet Our Stories, But Don't Use Our Logo (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

2:20 PM ET, March 25, 2011

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times Clarifies: Tweet Our Stories, But Don't Use Our Logo — In case you've been wondering why the @freeNYTimes Twitter feed continues to serve up a steady stream of links to New York Times articles even after the paper asked Twitter to shut it down, I have an answer.

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Jim / Gannett Blog:

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Joe Flint / Company Town:

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Vlad Savov / Engadget:

OMG, FYI, and LOL enter Oxford English Dictionary, foreshadow the apocalypse — In an acknowledgement of the internet's overwhelming influence on the triviality we sometimes refer to as “real life,” the Oxford English Dictionary doyens have decided to add a few of the web's favorite pronouncements to their lexicon.

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
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Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

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Sonya Hubbard / footnoted.com:

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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

How 'Hamlet's BlackBerry' & ‘Think Quarterly’ show why we should stop toggling between screens and stretch our minds — Google, the company that helped create our culture of constantly clicking, has unveiled Think Quarterly, a new magazine aimed at creating “breathing space in a busy world.”

Jack Shafer / Slate:

Numbers Are Hard To Come By, Part 2 — Everybody cuts corners. Take me, for example. Today I could be writing a critique of the Libyan war coverage. I could be assessing the disaster reporting from Japan or essaying on the difficulties of getting the Syrian uprising story.