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Jan. 27, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: The Guardian’s mega-database, display ads for Gmail, a PRX job opportunity

Google’s testing display ads in Gmail http://nie.mn/eowFKg (via @techmeme) »

Great job opportunity for Boston-area folks: @PRX is hiring a software developer http://nie.mn/fHwFu8 »

“Social networking is just a new way of talking to people, which is what reporters have always done.” http://nie.mn/gKhWMA »

Awesome: @GuardianTech puts all its data journalism into a single, massive spreadsheet http://nie.mn/hKyKSG (via @brainpicker) »

Report: Facebook will make its “sponsored stories” self-serve products for advertisers http://nie.mn/fY2t1J »

RT @caro: Very nifty RT @wellerwishes: Check out Boston.com today to see a very innovative & cutting-edge @jetblue Home Page ad takeover »

How TV news networks handled the SOTU online—a fascinating overview from media scholar @josh_braun http://nie.mn/hzxLHW »

Demand Media CEO: “The way Google defines a content farm, we are not a content farm.” http://nie.mn/hky6cs »

Localeaks offers a drop-box for anonymous tips to 1,400 US newspapers http://nie.mn/hSZGEA »

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The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”