- Dan Gillmor launches Bayosphere.
- Backfence is raising between $2mm and $10mm for expansion, according to VentureWire (full release in continuation). They report over a hundred users and "a couple dozen" contributors.
- NYT to put up a pay wall, which is widely seen as a smart move, or alternatively a sign of a newspocalypse.
- Newspapers are a conversation. I’m always one to say "I told you so." That was the first line of the original "manifesto" I wrote last August. That manifesto evolved into our business plan.
- On the Media goes in-depth on newspapers.
- Alan Mutter is not impressed with Infinity Radio’s podcasting experiment. Now I’m almost as much of a cynic as Alan. I wonder if MSM organizations would go so far as creating less-than-good products in new mediums like podcasting and citizens media in an effort to poison the well among middle-to-late adopters?: No Maw, I ain’t a gonna Podcast. I heard em on the radio and they wuz no good.
- If we were better citizens, we’d be better journalists. Reminds me of Bob Woodward’s talk about the fake Pulitzer story flap at the WaPo.
- Some interesting tidbits on OhMyNews.
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