Links on Twitter: MSNBC may develop EveryBlock independently, what happens when NPR.org breaks, Techmeme adds more humans

MSNBC may develop EveryBlock, the local-info aggregator, on its own instead of folding it into MSNBC.com http://tr.im/Fjb6 »

Intelligent failure: “What Happens When Stuff Breaks On NPR.org” http://tr.im/FjIK »

Congrats to MinnPost on raising $18,000 yesterday. Key: They’ve partnered with a statewide “giving portal” http://tr.im/FdFD »

New York Times is ditching Times Extra, which nobody used, and rethinking the best way to link out http://tr.im/Ff8d »

Techmeme, the invaluable tech-news aggregator, adds three more human editors, doubling its staff http://tr.im/FfkY »

How the news summaries Richard Nixon received from his staff of aggregators affected his presidency http://tr.im/FeJJ »

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.”

Samuel Jens

“Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024

“Whether intentional or not, the legislation we examined created potential opportunities to diminish opposing voices and decrease media freedom — both of which are particularly important in countries holding elections.”

Sophie Culpepper

Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering

“Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.”