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"In a charmingly illustrated infographic, we peruse the history of content, from cave paintings to the digital era's Flipboard. A lot has happened in the time between town criers and the Kindle, but our creation and consumption of news-related content has remained a constant factor for most cultures throughout human history."

Forget YouTube; never mind E-Bay; screw the pornosphere; Wikipedia is my guilty pleasure on the 'Net. It's where I go to keep the vast cluttered basement office of half respectable pop culture that resides in my brain in some semblance of informed order.

"The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""

" The all-important literacy of determining the credibility of information found on the Internet"

"You, too, can participate in our collective news evaluation. NewsTrust invites members like you to review submitted stories and rate them according to journalism standards and principles. "

"The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event earlier today resulted in an onslaught of breaking news reporting. Major news organizations raced to gather reporting, and information began to spread quickly.

As is often the case, this led to a lot of mistakes - including reports from NPR, Reuters, CNN, Fox News and others that said Rep. Giffords had died. I've collected the mistaken reports and other notable reaction and commentary from Twitter in a Storify story below. "

"The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post."

"Hackers use hidden device to manipulate news at Wi-Fi hotspots"

Major city governments across North America are looking for ways to share civic data — which normally resides behind secure firewalls — with private developers who can leverage it to serve city residents via web and mobile apps. Cities can spend on average between $20,000 and $50,000 — even as much as $100,000 — to cover the costs of opening data, but that’s a small price to pay when you consider how much is needed to develop a custom application that might not be nearly as useful.

"Two years into his tenure as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong is stepping on the gas.

By April, he wants AOL editorial to increase its stories per month from 33,000 to 55,000.

He wants pageviews per story to jump from 1,500 to 7,000."