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Sept. 17, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: CNN to launch “iReport University,” Facebook teams up with Rotten Tomatoes, WPP to build “electronic wallet” system

Now, you can be told that “Resident Evil: Afterlife” is a bad movie by friends as well as critics http://nie.mn/c2FKLm »

The number of visits to @boingboing referred by Twitter has doubled in two months, @Beschizza says »

Fun fact: In 1930, the U.S. Senate considered a ban on dial telephones http://nie.mn/9aFEH3 (via @kleinmatic»

LOVE this. For contributions to its brilliant #techcanon list http://nie.mn/c8UcA6, @TheAtlanticTech built a form http://nie.mn/chbVsx »

Proposed: “the more local or hyperlocal the news, the less important it is to get it right away” http://nie.mn/bmGeqx »

iPads are now for sale, officially, in five Latin American countries and China http://nie.mn/aJeU4X »

WPP to create an “electronic wallet” for content-purchasing across a range of sites http://nie.mn/cfnlRR (via @iwantmedia»

CNN teams up with J-schools around the world to start “iReport University” http://nie.mn/bwpVe4 »

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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.”