This week The Machines round up media & tech industry news you may have missed due to your lazy, inefficient human brain.

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The Pew Research Center says No. 1 story in 2011 was the faltering U.S. economy.

Wiretapping, SOPA, Occupy: 2011 Was a Tumultuous Year in Media Law

Why ‘Solutions Journalism’ Matters, Too

Where Have All the Photojournalists Gone?

Can HTML5 Future-Proof Your Mobile Strategy?

On Twitter People Want to Follow Personal Versus Official Accounts of Journalists.

Most marketers still don’t understand Twitter.

1 Million Articles Auto-Shared Daily, So Yahoo! Expands Facebook Integration To 26 More Sites

Facebook to Introduce Sponsored Stories to News Feed in 2012

CouponNetwork Pairs Coupons With Video

Online Video Views Dip, Yahoo Sees Gains

Microsoft Accelerates Rollout In Yahoo, AOL Display Deal

The New York Times Co. is Negotiating to Sell 16 Regional Newspapers to Halifax Media Holdings of Daytona Beach, Fla.

Amy Webb: Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012

What You Need to Know About SOPA in 2012

The Definitive (Animated) Guide to SOPA.