Quoted: A little more than a month ago msnbc announced plans to take over the @breakingnews Twitter handle, a news feed of breaking news tidbits with a whopping 1.5 million followers.

Quoted: The official site of The Week Magazine US edition. The best of the US and international media. Daily coverage of commentary and analysis of the day?s events, as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

Quoted: The book is finally closed on the disaterous AOL-Time Warner deal. Nine years after the two companies completed the second largest deal on record, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong rang the bell at the NYSE this morning and AOL and Time Warner will officially be separated. The deal is regarded as the worst of the decade?

Intriguing...I hadn't been following this at all, I hope this is a fair account of the situation.

Quoted: In his Wall Street Journal column, Information Age, L. Gordon Crovitz writes that bloggers peer review a scientific consensus.

Shiwani's article she co-wrote was plagiarized in this WSJ piece!

Quoted: The Wall Street Journal has scrubbed an article from its website after learning that it was plagiarized from several sources. "A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine," a notice to readers now reads where the column once lived.

Google made a *policy* change to their First Click Free program. This is all about Google anti-"cloaking" policy. A web site may not show one thing to Google, and another thing to users. If you do - Google will remove you from their index.

But they have exceptions for subscription/registration sites. They are allowed to put up a pay-wall (subscription/registration requirement) as long as clicks coming from Google referred pages (News and Search) are exempted. As long as your landing page on your site is visible to users with it's full content, you can put up a pay wall on subsequent clicks in your site.

This weeks announcement allows publishers to be a bit more restrictive in their policy. They can now block the 6th and later link from a Google site each day. Google is doing nothing new here - but just changing their allowed policy for publishers implementing First Click Free.

Quoted: The $2.7 billion deal, valued at $7.90 a share, has already been approved by directors of both companies.