Gimme back my bullets

Today was another brain-hurty day of financial wranglings, but there are lots of interesting things to post. So, you know the drill-- bullets.

• Hail Wikipedia! AP now gives it props as a credible source. And, they're moving into news. We certainly hope to retain the spirit of such ventures, but we think that it'll be hard to take the wiki concept into local news -- it moves too fast, and you can't count on unpaid citizen journalists to be there every single day.
• We've talked before about OhMyNews as a foreign model that should give us hope. Guess what-- They're making money. Look East, young Red Horse.
• The free v. paid wars rage on. Note that Belo doesn't give up the number of paid subs for Cowboys Extra.
• Jay Rosen has an exhaustive review of the blogosphere on the MSM's flubs in the recent non-Ukranian election.
• Blogging and Journalism are already sleeping together: Look closer at the two sides, however, and you'll find that there's far more crossbreeding going on between these particular Capulets and Montagues than you might expect from all the hue and cry. The reality is that the line between "blogger" and "journalist" -- and between "amateur" and "pro" -- is already extremely fuzzy. And if you think things are blurred now: well, just wait a little while longer, because soon enough, things are going to start to really get interesting.
  Duh. See The Scrolldown for an early example.
• What a tangled Web we weave: Our discovery of MicroPersuasion leads to a nice mention. And another. And another. Welcome to our new friends.