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Daily Must Reads, Nov. 30, 2011

The best stories across the web on media and technology

1. CNN cites quality of iReporters' cameras when laying off photojournalists (PetaPixel)

2. U.S. judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (Ars Technica)

3. Is Siri anti-abortion? (The Raw Story)

4. FTC announces 20-year privacy deal with Facebook (paidContent)

5. New publisher of technical books embraces e-books and authors, not DRM (VentureBeat)

6. How 1970s video collectives anticipated our strange Internet (The Atlantic)

7. Games, government and the future of coding in the UK (The Guardian)

8. Google opens door to mobile maps inside buildings (ReadWriteWeb)



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