Popular on Twitter: Texas Tribune is in growth mode, Pew on location-based services, TV execs fear Hulu

[Early every afternoon Eastern time, we’ll be highlighting the most-talked-about links in the future-of-news corner of Twitter. What are news nerds buzzing about? Here are today’s top 10, gathered via The Hourly Press. It’s like being on Twitter all day, without actually having to be on Twitter all day. —Josh]

Magazine editor defends plagiarizing the web

TV executive fears Hulu is destroying the industry

Will location-based services really take off?

A chat with Steve Buttry on the ethics of social media

Guardian flips its iPhone app to subscription model outside the US

Texas Tribune shows nonprofit doesn’t mean non-growth

Jay Rosen: Andrew Breitbart couldn’t lose in ABC debacle

Tom Brokaw suggests single-topic newscasts

State Department to start hosting tech camps worldwide

Arik Hesseldahl jumps to All Things D

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”

Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income

“I think risk aversion is the thing that’s killing our business right now.”

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.”