Links on Twitter: AOL launches map projects, NPR goes SAT, YouTube sets up original video fund

What Vaudeville can teach us about journalism: @niemanstory on iterative attention http://j.mp/bF6BfL »

Analyzing failure’s great, but so is analyzing success: some thoughts on successful entrepreneurship http://j.mp/ba3jda »

Salon sees social media-fueled traffic surge 720% http://j.mp/alxbqw »

YouTube sets up $5 million fund to finance original videos http://j.mp/c1lIj6 »

NPR goes SAT, AARP http://j.mp/bduTpz »

New @niemanstory: “A kind of anti-narrative stillness in the visuals deepens the story that is delivered through sound” http://j.mp/bL7Xp5 »

AOL launches open-source maps projects in the US and UK http://j.mp/an6d8i »

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.”