Links on Twitter: Huffington Post’s local news plans, AOL’s PoliticsDaily vs. Politico, Weekly World News on Google Books

By Twitter June 22, 2009, 7:19 p.m.

What’s next for Arianna Huffington? Local sites in NY and Denver. Good interview with the “blog diva” http://tr.im/pjtS »

Kachingle, Contenture, Inamoon, Payyattention, & EmanciPay all offer awkwardly named micropayment solutions http://tr.im/pjwi »

A lesson in aggregation: How @robinsloan created his “Iran election tracker for the easily overwhelmed” http://tr.im/plpU »

AOL’s PoliticsDaily already has twice Politico’s traffic, but does it matter? I debated it this weekend http://tr.im/pjFO »

Our proudest moment: Howard Stern shouts out the Nieman Journalism Lab (in April) http://tr.im/pjKK »

Google Monster Abducts Satirical Newspaper! Complete archive of Weekly World News available on Google Books http://tr.im/pftv »

POSTED June 22, 2009, 7:19 p.m.

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