The Morning Lowdown 8-23-11

Morning Lowdown

»  The NYT’s new education site with WNYC will be collaborative, experimental…and meter-free (Nieman Journalism Lab)

»  Plastic Logic’s e-readers may see light of day in Russian classrooms (paidContent)

»  MP3tunes wins copyright case against EMI, for the most part (paidContent)

»  The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet (VentureBeat)

»  Why does Groupon really suck? Because it makes people eat at bad restaurants (Betabeat)

»  News of the World editor Andy Coulson said to receive pay after he took Conservative Party post (NYT)

»  Spitzer sued for libel over his Slate column (Reuters)

»  John Locke and Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) show us another kind of deal we can expect to see again (Shatzkin Files)

»  How much did HP (NYSE: HPQ) lose on the TouchPad? Here’s a good guess (All Things Digital). Meanwhile, TouchPad buyers say Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) reneged (CNET)

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