Links on Twitter: Interview with Josh Cohen of Google News, top markets for NY Times outside New York, Huffington Post asks Twitter followers to rewrite headline

By Twitter Sept. 10, 2009, 5:57 p.m.

Josh Cohen of Google News makes an obvious but key point: There’s no money in search ads for Afghanistan http://tr.im/ykWt »

Outside New York, the NY Times’ biggest markets are San Francisco, Boston, DC, Philly, LA http://tr.im/ykPS »

35 iPhone apps that @palafo, who heads the copydesk at the New York Times, actually uses http://tr.im/ylmA »

“‘I understand that The New York Times Magazine is not Mind,’ Wieseltier writes, but really he doesn’t” http://tr.im/ynac »

“No, YOU lie” is @huffingtonpost‘s first attempt at a headline for its top story, but they’re trying something new. Check out #headlinehelp. »

POSTED Sept. 10, 2009, 5:57 p.m.

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