Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
For people under 24, the use of e-mail tumbled more than 30% in the last year nie.mn/y5KNWl 
Links on Twitter: Clay Shirky, Nick Kristof, microboredom
“This collective, global AHHHHH!” @cshirky on the emotional element of news distribution http://tr.im/o2UF »
Twitter tiff between Guardian editor @arusbridger and Labour MP @tom_watson has a great ending http://tr.im/o2HX »
Global oppression was never this fun: Nick Kristof’s next book to include an online social-networking game http://tr.im/o1Bg »
Dig how @publici packaged its latest investigation: precis, stories, podcast, docs, searchable database http://tr.im/o1DH »
The energy-trust spectrum: @10000Words finds meaning in the color palettes of various news sites http://tr.im/o2S0 »
Microboredom: state of mind marked by idly playing with phone. Marketers want to capitalize http://tr.im/o3lr But so could news sites. »
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