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This Week in Review: The Times’ pay plan unveiled, a SXSW primer, and a closer look at NPR’s foes

Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. This week: No shortage of reactions to The New York Times' new paywall; the annual gathering of the future-of-journalism tribe at SXSW; is bloggers vs. journalists really dead?; legislative reaction to the NPR tapes; Pew releases its annual State of...

Pro Tip: How To Stop SXSW Twitter Overload In Its Tracks

There's a lot of cool stuff happening in Austin at the South by Southwest conference this week, and All Things Digital will have three (3!) people on the ground to tell you about it. On the other hand, there's going to be lots of stuff coming out there that isn't so cool or interesting, and...

Facebook Won’t Spend Much Bread on Hot Potato

Another "buy them instead of hiring them" deal: Facebook is about to pick up Hot Potato, a start-up that specializes in organizing chats about "real time" events.The transaction hasn't closed yet, but the social network is set to pay something in the $10 million to $15 million range for the company, people familiar with the...

Media Frets About Its Own Future at SXSWi 2010

Ink-stained wretches, it's not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).

Foursquare’s Next Move: A Big Funding Round

Start-up-of-the-moment Foursquare has lots of buzz, a rapidly growing user base and a triumphant tour of South by Southwest under its belt. Next task: Raising a pile of money.Sources tell me that the mobile social network, which lets you tell your friends where you are, is lining up a new round of financing to bolster...

Wired’s iPad Demo Wows SXSW Audience

Scott Dadich, Design Director for Wired and Jeremy Clark, Experience Designer for Adobe, previewed a demo of Wired's future plans for an iPad version of the Conde Nast title. Judging by the response on Twitter, the demo created bit of a stir, primarily it seems for showing what the future of magazines could look...

How to Hoodwink Twitter (Hint: It’s Easy)

You don't need to get a group of Digg fans to spread a fake story on Twitter. But it's a pretty effective way to do it.