Weekend video long(ish)-form: 5 essential TED Talks, as selected by the New Yorker.

Worried you might be tweeting into a vacuum? Try tweeting on weekends. But don’t let everybody start doing that, or else it will stop working. The BBC College of Journalism Blog offers pointers for making sure people pay attention to your 140 characters.

Al Jazeera's "The Stream" had its Twitter account hacked by supporters of Bashar al-Assad, according to the Huffington Post. 

The Israeli journalist who drew on leaked army documents to report the alleged assassination of Palestinian militants was spared jail time in a plea bargain, reports Reuters via the Huffington Post. 

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