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March 15, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: visual journalism, revamping Digg, Super Swarm in Austin

Just launched: @NiemanReports‘ fantastic Spring 2010 issue, exploring visual journalism http://j.mp/qGov »

Of the 35,000 companies that build iPhone apps, 7,000 (20%) launched specifically for the iPhone platform http://j.mp/d8DPnn »

A link on Wikipedia’s main page pushes a 20-year-old Time article onto the site’s most-read list http://j.mp/amio0T (via @simonowens»

What’s better: a wall of iPads or one diamond-encrusted Apple beauty? http://j.mp/dBVrVr (via @redirectny»

Here’s Twitter’s announcement of the new @anywhere platform http://j.mp/amwfDk »

Conde Nast experiments with funding streams. Teen Vogue readers can pay for beauty consultation with magazine staffers http://j.mp/bXz3RT »

Apple sells an estimated 152,000 iPads in three days of pre-ordering http://j.mp/9yoXzz »

Facebook will open an office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad (also home to Google, Microsoft offices) http://j.mp/9538dF »

ABC News is hiring digital journalists who can produce, write and edit their own work for on-air and online http://j.mp/aWoo3T »

Digg CEO Jay Adelson discusses the site’s extensive (and five-years-in-the-making) overhaul http://j.mp/9PELM0 »

Hybrid displays: Elle partners with California mag in an attempt to leverage regional ad markets http://j.mp/bx5ljv »

Super Swarm, SXSW edition: Foursquare hits a record-breaking 347,000 check-ins in a single day http://j.mp/aC7qbi »

Good morning! Pew finds growth, unbundling, power shifts in its 2010 State of the News Media report http://j.mp/bGLrbf

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