Links on Twitter: Craiglist competitor, iPhone 3.0, sponsored tweets

Newspaper industry, not for the first time, considers launching a Craigslist competitor http://tr.im/nu0v »

Folks at the @berkmancenter have mapped the Iranian blogosphere, from poets to reformists to “cyber-shia” http://tr.im/nwUa »

What the iPhone 3.0 means for publishers: geotargeted content and more flexible ways to charge http://tr.im/nzVs »

The average online video, from YouTube to Hulu, is 3.5 minutes long http://tr.im/nwzS »

Weekend reading on business models for news? @stevebuttry has good picks at the end of this post http://tr.im/nxDp »

Yeesh. An ad network will soon pay Twitter users for writing sponsored tweets http://tr.im/nxw3 »

Sarah Scire

Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up

Nonprofit news has seen an uptick in mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations. CalMatters CEO Neil Chase still says “I don’t think we’ve seen enough yet.”

Jonathan Stray

“Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it?

“For a long time, ‘objectivity’ packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement.”

Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

Within days of visiting the pages — and without commenting on, liking, or following any of the material — Facebook’s algorithm recommended reams of other AI-generated content.