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Oct. 27, 2009, 5:08 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Price of a Gawker Media sponsored post, what Ruby on Rails means for news, Yahoo cracks up ad industry

In this fascinating thread, we learn that a $25,000 ad buy with Gawker Media gets you a free sponsored post http://tr.im/De6Y »

Thanks for all the 1st-birthday wishes today. Also celebrating a birthday, its 15th, is the banner ad http://tr.im/Dgq4 »

Programmer philosophy: What Ruby on Rails and the “news blob” mean for the future of journalism http://tr.im/D7xL »

Try telling me this post, “What data exploration feels like,” doesn’t sound like good ole reporting http://tr.im/D5oV »

NYT’s @nickbilton: “We trust the news media 29%, and we trust our friends and family 90%” http://tr.im/D5Lp »

This Yahoo video doesn’t make *me* LOL, but it’s huge in the ad world, so that alone is reason to watch http://tr.im/D5Zs »

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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.”