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July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Classfied | Retail, Uncategorized

+ Transitioning back from a week out of town on vacation (a curious undertaking on several levels for someone who is for the first time ever officially unemployed).

+ Google News going to get Dugg? TechCrunch says Google and Digg close to finalizing an acquistion. Here.

+ Star Tribune launches Data Center. NYT says it’ll blog about “hard-to-get, but telling, documents.”  (Via Romenesko)

+ Squared is co-hosting a small Online News Association networking reception for Unity attendees in Chicago. From 5-7 on Friday at the Billy Goat. Come visit.

+ A refreshingly upbeat effort by colleague Chrys Wu: What comes after a newspaper career. Here.

+ Belated (vacation-caused)  link love for Kurt Greenbaum for a project he’s doing for ASNE on the future of editors in the news business. Ici.

+ Mindy McAdams on video lessons from two icons — Walt Mossberg and David Pogue.

+ Project for Excellence in Journalism report: ” Fully 56% [of editors] think their news product is better than it was three years earlier.” Tell that to the readers — and advertisers — if you can catch them fleeing furiously into the darkness like vampires being chased by Johnny Garlicseed.

+ Blogger comp based on page views leads to 40% increase in PVs at Gawker, according to Bloggasm. Here.

+ LinkedIn gets targeted  NYT heds. Here.

+ Some sensible stuff on the ad side from Ken Doctor: “AdMan’s Nine Imperatives For New Growth.”

+ Excellent rants about “totally bogus trend stories” by Jack Shafer soar 100%. Here.

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