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Bypass the Wall Street Journal paywall faster with a browser bookmarklet

Here’s a Javascript bookmarklet that will save you a few steps in reading Wall Street Journal articles for free.

Google doesn’t really delete your bookmarks?

Maybe it seems naive in this day and age to think that when you choose to delete data from an online service, it’s not actually gone but rather simply hidden from you – the illusion of deletion. This appears to be the case with Google Bookmarks.

Use Google to read the Wall Street Journal for free

Rupert Murdoch’s statement yesterday that he wants to block Google and other search engines from indexing News Corp. sites. — such as the Wall Street Journal, which hides some of its articles behind a $1.99-a-week paywall — makes now a good time to remind people that you can use Google to read those guarded Wall [...]

7 steps to turn Google Reader into a journalist’s best friend

Every journalist should use an RSS reader to keep up with news feeds. Here are seven quick and easy steps for you as a journalist to take Google Reader to the next level.

Exclude specific news sites from Google News search alerts

Web-savvy journalists use Google News alerts and/or RSS feeds to scour the Web for news related to their beat that pops up on sites they typically wouldn’t read. Here’s a quick tip for refining the results.

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