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Facebook Shuts Down Scrabulous (NYT/Bits)
Facebook has shut down Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game on its site. If you try to pull up the popular game, you get the following message: "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice." It is a bit of a surprise that Scrabulous, an obvious copy of the board game Scrabble, managed to avoid shutdown as long as it did.

John McCain's Go-Along, Get-Along Media Strategy (CSM)
Dante Chinni: The access John McCain has given reporters on the "Straight Talk Express" is manna to many of them. And how many politicians, let alone Republican ones, are comfortable on the set of The Daily Show? But in 2008, does that go-along, get-along media attitude work with bedrock conservatives who simply don't like or trust the mainstream press?

Who's Going to Buy the San Diego Union-Tribune? (Voice of San Diego)
Randy Dotinga: The San Diego Union-Tribune is for sale, but there's little chance that the usual suspects will want to buy. A year or two ago, the newspaper's newly announced bid for buyers might have drawn attention from publicly traded media companies, including some with reputations for high-quality journalism. But the newspaper world has entered an unprecedented state of collapse over the last several months.

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