Links on Twitter: Facebook to get Foursquared, Civil Beat to start an “Imaginarium,” Open File to expand

CNET is reporting that Facebook’s Foursquare-like geolocation/check-in feature is “imminent” http://j.mp/arQaB1 »

Toronto’s @Open_File, which we wrote about on its launch http://j.mp/b9iz4c, is expanding to more cities http://j.mp/aMrXZ3 »

.@StateDept now issues foreign policy news via the mobile web http://j.mp/dqpE5l »

We are fairly certain that, somehow, this guy is the future of news. http://j.mp/bEcM5K »

Paved paths? "Pissoirs"? @Civilbeat‘s Imaginarium invites ideas "to make Hawaii a better place" http://j.mp/aRDhT4 »

Want to become a social media grokstar? Apply for @SPJ‘s Kiplinger Fellowship http://j.mp/a9ZnHz »

At the UK’s Times, a reduction in ads behind its new paywall is giving way to advertorials outside the wall http://j.mp/9CZSWf »

Google’s tracking code appears on 45 of the 50 most popular US websites; here’s the back-story http://j.mp/anLrke »

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.”

Sophie Culpepper

Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering

“Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.”

Joshua Benton

The conspiracy-loving Epoch Times is thinking about opening…a journalism school?

It would, um, “champion the same values of ‘truth and traditional’ as The Epoch Times” and, er, “nurture in the next generation of media professionals,” ahem, “the highest standards of personal integrity, fairness, and truth-seeking.”