Links on Twitter: Craiglist competitor, iPhone 3.0, sponsored tweets

Newspaper industry, not for the first time, considers launching a Craigslist competitor http://tr.im/nu0v »

Folks at the @berkmancenter have mapped the Iranian blogosphere, from poets to reformists to “cyber-shia” http://tr.im/nwUa »

What the iPhone 3.0 means for publishers: geotargeted content and more flexible ways to charge http://tr.im/nzVs »

The average online video, from YouTube to Hulu, is 3.5 minutes long http://tr.im/nwzS »

Weekend reading on business models for news? @stevebuttry has good picks at the end of this post http://tr.im/nxDp »

Yeesh. An ad network will soon pay Twitter users for writing sponsored tweets http://tr.im/nxw3 »

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”

Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income

“I think risk aversion is the thing that’s killing our business right now.”

Jeff Jarvis

The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news

“If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed.”