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It’s two years since The Rocky Mountain News closed in Denver, Colorado, and the newspaper’s former editor, president and publisher John Temple hassurveyedhis former journalists to find out what they’re up to now. Rather depressingly, most of them are earning less than they did then. 146 of the paper’s 194 journalists responded to Temple’s survey which found that 67% of them now earn less than in their old job at the Rocky Mountain News, with 57% saying that they now earn “Much less” than in their old job....

Question and Answer sites likeQuoraare becoming very popular on the web, and services likeYahoo! Answershas been around for many years. Sometimes people want to find an answer to a question from real people and not just rely on the results they get in a Google search. A site like Quora allows you to ask a question, and get an answer from a wide variety of people with a wide variety of skillsets and knowledge....

While I would venture to say that the majority of TNW readers are proud, smartphone-carrying technology junkies, you surely have the friend that isn’t. For whatever reason, they’ve insisted on keeping that old dumbphone. If that’s the case, and they still want to be able to get email,TxtJetcan help them to do just that. TxtJet is supremely simple. Just head to the site, enter (and verify) your mobile number and then enter the details for which email account you’d like to have forwarded to you....

How many times have you made a mental note to send a text message to arrange a meetup with a friend or noted down a date to remind yourself that you need to text your sister on her birthday, only to forget and end up sending a belated message apologising for your lateness? A new iPhone app calledTxtot(Text on time) is aiming to make these embarrassments a thing of the past by scheduling text messages and reminding you when you need to send them....

Tynt, a product from a Canadian startup in Calgary is an analytics tool for publishers but it also ensures content creators receive credit for their work by attaching a back-link to any information that is copied from their site. Since wewroteabout Tynt last month, it now has over 600,000 publishers on board, which goes to show that publishers find great value in understanding the patterns and behaviours of their visitors....