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 »

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.”