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April 2, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Facebook introduces Community Pages, Yahoo! News debuts an editor’s note, media celebrate iPad Eve

Because it’s Friday: Crowdsourcing! Reader engagement! Interactivity! Peeps! http://j.mp/9AbCo2 »

Yahoo! News debuts editor’s note–“appearing each Friday to comment on the week’s major news stories” http://j.mp/bNEraD »

Craigslist, BoingBoing, Twitter leaders comment on the iPad, control v. openness, potential for magazines http://j.mp/cqXCr5 »

Twitter’s search page now orders first three tweets by popularity, rather than by time http://j.mp/9jnzdr »

Clay Shirky on the collapse of the complex biz model: figure out simplicity and you’ll get to decide the future http://j.mp/bEXqMb »

Stephen Colbert reviews the iPad: just like the iPhone, you can’t make calls with it! Ba dum bum http://j.mp/a3xiVm »

Crediting a recent redesign, Salon’s traffic up 35% in March 2010 over 2009, Q1 traffic up 22% over last year http://j.mp/aLwpWS »

“Strong community engagement will be everyone’s job. But it will also be the job of my team.” http://j.mp/cNENUj »

Facebook introduces Community Pages http://j.mp/bb8sOA »

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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.”