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May 22, 2009, 7:47 a.m.

Links on Twitter: Web design, exploding pie, Stephen Colbert

You must read this if you care about web design: How @A_L remade the Talking Points Memo homepage http://tr.im/lWX7 »

Know your AJAX from your schema? Very useful glossary of web-design jargon http://tr.im/lZkW »

1998: “Nando also recently requested that certain sites pay a $100 monthly fee for the right to link to Nando stories” http://tr.im/lZlD »

Hearst executive calls Yahoo’s newspaper advertising group “our largest strategic partner” http://tr.im/m2u3 »

Section front in today’s NY Times features an exploding pie. How it was done: http://tr.im/m2mm (via @drewvigal»

Stephen Colbert defends newspapers: “When you’re moving, you can’t wrap your dishes in a blog” http://tr.im/m0XF »

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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.”