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Links with longer shelf life and less cholesterol than fried butter, as if that's hard:

• Bakersfield paper may shutter community sites: Or may not, depending on which local executive you believe, and which lines you read between, in this PaidContent report.

Links with enough dust on them to prove how far behind I became in reading and blogging:

Design and UX stuff

• Introducing Typekit: Taking advantage of emerging markup/style practices that allow fonts other than the overexposed "Web-safe" selections, this service appears to be the most meaningful development for better Web typography in a long time. (Here's hoping widespread adoption of new font capabilities will make my ancient Text Style Sampler finally obsolete.)

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.

Links in search of someone in a quippier mood than me, all the better to say quippy things at a rapid quip (enough already, Small!):