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10:05 AM ET, October 28, 2012

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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense  —  And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward  —  For about the last five years, Wikipedia has had trouble getting and keeping new volunteer editors.
Discussion: The Verge
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera creates interactive video transcripts of debates  —  Each word in the transcripts of the US presidential debates is linked to the exact point in the video where that word is spoken by Obama or Romney  —  The four US presidential debates maybe over but Al Jazeera English now offers …
Knowledge@Wharton:
WSJ's Raju Narisetti: ‘Journalism Has to Be Hand in Glove with Technology’  —  After a six-year hiatus from The Wall Street Journal, Raju Narisetti returned to the paper earlier this year to head its online news efforts.  From 1994 to 2006, Narisetti worked for the WSJ in the U.S. and abroad …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
‘Great Journalism’ That Has Unwanted Business Impact in China  —  Here's one memorable part of the coverage of the Chinese government's censorship Friday of The New York Times's Chinese-language Web site: the word “harmonized.”  —  The word crops up in a Washington Post story …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ hits its first hurdle in its quest to capture the Chinese market
Discussion: CNET, The Week, FishbowlNY and DealBook
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ foreign editor says readers in China are finding their way to the site despite government blockade
Discussion: New York Times, Guardian and CNET
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
New York Times endorses Obama ‘enthusiastically’  —  The New York Times editorial board, rather unsuprisingly, endorsed President Obama on Saturday.  But unlike many other papers calling for the president's re-election with some resignation, the Times is “enthusiastically” backing him.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN bans ‘Frankenstorm’ term for Hurricane Sandy  —  Hurricane Sandy, a big storm expected to hit the Eastern Seaboard just shy of Halloween, has taken on the popular nickname of “Frankenstorm.”  A Newsday story takes the moniker to punning extremes, noting, “Meteorologists expect …
David Weigel / Slate:
The Power of James O'Keefe  —  This is a fact, and it will piss of liberals, but: James O'Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist.  His newest victory occured in Virginia, where a reporter from his Project Veritas approached Patrick Moran …
New York Times:
Spain's Troubles Catch Up With a Storied Newspaper  —  MADRID — El País established itself as the leading newspaper in Spain in the late 1970s, serving as a frontline witness to the formative period when Spain returned to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
BuzzFeed adapts its branded content approach to political advertising, and Obama's in  —  Add this to the signs that BuzzFeed is becoming a serious player in the media business: campaign ads.  —  More specifically, native, BuzzFeed-y, campaign ads.  This month Obama for America became …
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and Wired
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Rupert Murdoch, American publisher  —  State governments finally cracked down on Amazon's sales tax exemption, and Jeff Bezos found a workaround: same-day-delivery of retail ("The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street").  European governments and the European Community …
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
In 2012 election, the meme factory hones its assembly line  —  From binders full of women to horses and bayonets, candidates find themselves navigating the first ‘Meme Election’  —  About 100 people had gathered for a generously-catered, open bar party in the West Village offices of Livestream …
Discussion: GigaOM
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Anniversary  —  With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest websites on the Internet.  —  This abruptly ended January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting service and had several key employees arrested including founder Kim Dotcom.
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
ValoBox launches pay-by-the-piece ebooks with O'Reilly and Guardian
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT
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Jake Harper / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
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Tim Windsor / Zero Percent Idle:
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