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Links all wishing I had gotten to them sooner:

• No news is no news: Jeff Jarvis' thoughts following a conference on new business models for news.
• Gannett pushes for more tech hires, data centers, niche sites: Mark Glaser interviews Jennifer Carroll, Gannett's vice president for digital content, about the company's Information Center strategy.
• An update on our Drupal conversion: Steve Yelvington provides great insights into Morris newspapers' conversion to the popular open-source site framework. Drupal powers this site, too.
• The ad network shakeout has started: Too much of a good thing, opines Om Malik. Cory Bergman recorded similar observations a few days earlier. My day-job company, however, sees much promise in the new Yahoo! Apt network.
• Blogs on their way out?: Matt Sokoloff channels a Wired magazine article about how Twitter has supplanted blogs as the lightweight channel for opinion leadership. I dunno. Thanks to free little bridge components, every post I make to this site automatically becomes a tweet, which in turn automatically becomes my Facebook status -- so why does it have to be just one or another?
• Slaughtering the cash cows a bit too early: Ken Doctor says consumers notice the effects of cuts at newspapers in the products themselves, and become less likely to buy them.
• CNN courts newspapers with new wire service: Joe Strupp reports this new entrant in, by all accounts, a declining market dominated by The Associated Press. I say bring on the alternatives, CNN.
• The cost of First Click Free: Nick Carr discusses Google's pass-through program for sites that require registration but still want Google search referrals. Carr says it's a "helluva good business idea." Agreed.
• How do mobile users spend their time?: Texting, says eMarketer.
• How to optimize your Web connection: For all you reluctant and frustrated home systems administrators, like me, Wired offers some battle-tested tips to squeeze more packets through your purported "broadband" connection.
• Recommended Web strategy reading: What would a link bucket be without a link to another link bucket? Sorry for getting all meta on you, but this roundup from Jeremiah Owyang points to thoughtful posts about overall Web strategy. If you prefer your link buckets with more of a user experience angle, there's always ...
• Look at the usability, SEO, Web design and cool stuff: Cre8pc rounds up a designer's nirvana of reading matter. Go for it, in your alleged spare time.