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Recommended links for the weekend:

• What’s coming down the pike for Courier - New features in short order: ability to map Courier users to WordPress users, queuing support, and statistics on subscriber base changes.
• A brand new, Django-powered Harvard Crimson launched on 11/10/09 at 8:07 pm.
• In a stroke of amazing luck, Scott Bressler has a few developers building an iPhone application for Student Life. Weigh in with your ideas, and whether it should be open source or closed.
• 5 Ways to find, mix and mash your data - Great resources to use to map information (tks Brian Manzullo)
• Who will pay the messengers? - Copious notes by Max Cutler from four sessions at Yale’s “Journalism and the New Media Ecology” conference. [Max is actually going to do a more thorough write-up shortly]
• Why the mainstream media is dying -Fake Steve Jobs tears into the New York Times regarding the way that they (failed) to cover the Zynga story that TechCrunch broke. Good rebuttal to the “blogs don’t practice journalism” meme (tks Andrew Spittle)
• 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 - Several exciting additions including the_post_image(), oEmbed support for adding media to posts, and custom post types.

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