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Links on Twitter: Le Monde’s citizen-journalism strategy, paying sources, ads in office lobbies

By Twitter Oct. 19, 2009, 5:24 p.m.

Why Le Monde built a separate brand for reader-generated journalism: “We needed to be free to experiment” http://tr.im/CkKR »

Gorgeous @blprnt visualization of when people say “Good morning” on Twitter (for us, around 9 a.m. EST) http://tr.im/CjD9 »

Nick Denton on paying for the Balloon Boy story: “A story is a story. We’re not squeamish about the means” http://tr.im/CiED »

Big advertising revenue boom this year in…office lobbies? http://tr.im/Cir6 »

POSTED Oct. 19, 2009, 5:24 p.m.

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