Amy Webb: Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012 http://t.co/8XgtP0my

"What’s killing newspapers isn’t the lack of new ideas, it’s people who obstruct the change that’s required to survive" http://t.co/Fen0LunI

Bloggers take note: Wired is opening up its image archive for Creative Commons use http://t.co/eGDOrBWg

A new study of social media in the news finds that almost 50% of journalists use Twitter as a source http://nie.mn/kOzzYG

Al Jazeera is letting others use their Egypt coverage under Creative Commons http://nie.mn/g0p1EZ

At 2.6 million followers, the NYT has more followers than print subscribers http://nie.mn/b45DuH

Good news, data journalists! Google opens its Public Data Explorer http://nie.mn/fWPqpg

The New York Times' R&D lab has been quietly building a tool that tracks the life of a story on Twitter http://nie.mn/f3BFJH

Al Jazeera journalist (and Nieman Fellow '09) Dorothy Parvaz missing in Syria; please share #FreeDorothy http://nie.mn/jUowZB

This is quite possibly the most adorable letter to the editor ever. http://nie.mn/h96MSb

That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for the NYT paywall to come tumbling down http://nie.mn/eZH3to

The @nytimes upgraded to Facebook Timeline… with content going all the way back to 1851 http://t.co/2hiO2tBR #wow

Worth noting: Twitter has created a @TwitterForNews account to spotlight best practices by journalists and newsrooms

NPR's (WordPress-powered) Argo Platform is now open-source and available for download http://t.co/U6qUl6Wn

A radio reporter used her iPhone to record interviews — and no one noticed the difference http://nie.mn/jhkkxA

The secret's out: Publishers think of HTML5, not the app, as the future of mobile consumption http://nie.mn/dNCibF

Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills http://t.co/nKDILiBl

How the Christian Science Monitor has driven its monthly pageviews from 3 million to 25 million http://nie.mn/hIU0pW

A visual roundup of blacked out front pages around the web, some of them quite clever http://t.co/lF14S4Ay #SOPA

Researchers at MIT are working on a tool that can ID how rumors are spread on Twitter http://nie.mn/jrGPkk