Links on Twitter: Read Write Web is hiring, scraping data without skills, LOLcat king talks memes

LOLCat King: “Communities where there is a high level of interaction and remixing” are where long-lasting memes are born http://j.mp/9efhgn »

How to scrape data from websites without programming skills http://j.mp/boXKrd »

What happened to the story I saw before Slate’s homepage blew up? Mystery solved http://j.mp/9y55t7 »

Are news consumers still engaged in the Gulf oil spill story? Traffic to primary source sites suggests, yes http://j.mp/d0eWDM »

Words nerds like on Twitter (apps, review, poll), don’t fly with mainstream Facebook users http://j.mp/c9tvHY »

Media and tech blog @ReadWriteWeb is hiring writers: send 3 clips (prefer online) to editor@readwriteweb.com »

Sophie Culpepper

Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes

“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”

Francesco Zaffarano

How Seen’s mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms

“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”

Kathryn Buchanan

Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news

“This shows us there’s something unique about kindness which may buffer the effects of negative news on our mental health.”