Four Wednesday

1. More layoffs at the Oregonian, though not on the news side. Willamette Week

2. Online journalism lets you feel the pleasures of being a rodent inside a plastic ball. Wired

3. Pandora Radio follows Facebook, Skype, LinkedIn, GroupOn and Twitter into the tech bubble that's not a bubble. NYT Dealbook

4. LA>Forward goes dark because of cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. LA Observed

Four in the morning

1. How to use the dreaded semicolon The Oatmeal

2. An Oregonian reported got fired for going outside of the network Willamette Week

3. Los Angeles City Hall reporters don't like the new access rules. LAT

4. Differences in what social media covers versus the mainstream press. PEJ