- Wikipedia adds editing
Increased oversight of articles tested on German site - News Corp. consortium
Wants to bring publishers together to charge for content, mobile - NYT crowdsources CIA docs
Asks readers to help annotate online documents; off to slow start - The Slatest
New aggregated list replaces In Today's Papers - Snow Leopard
New Apple OS pounces on August 28
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