Links on Twitter: AFP to get into direct-content, ONA to revamp site, UK Times paywall leads to advertiser pull-out

By Twitter Sept. 2, 2010, 6 p.m.

How social data built a better health care app: @digiphile guest-posts at @mashable http://nie.mn/bxM0p1 »

"Imaginary cosmopolitans": @TheEconomist considers cross-national web use with data from @zephoria @ethanz http://nie.mn/az68Ai »

B2B no more: AFP’s setting stage to offer readers direct access to its content via web, apps http://nie.mn/9BDslF »

Congrats @ONA on a $75K grant from Excellence & Ethics in Journalism Foundation to develop its site http://nie.mn/dgzJha »

Crowdsourcing! Cooperation! Cop-evasion! New site maps police speed traps http://nie.mn/aL5Hvr (via @robinJP) »

Monocle opens NYC shop selling furniture, candles, stationery, clothing–and back issues of the mag http://nie.mn/cuFiba »

Advertisers pull out of The Times after post-paywall traffic collapse http://nie.mn/cxbKf8 »

Twitter scores another news-breaking credit, this time with the Discovery Channel gunman story http://nie.mn/9Iuj2Q »

POSTED Sept. 2, 2010, 6 p.m.

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