And when the quick have run away like pellets,Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets

I'm starting to agree with Ed Cone -- Headlines for blogs are rough stuff. That was the most convoluted lead-in to a bullet point list yet. Bonus points if you can name the source without Googling.

• Reorg at Belo Interactive. Sites are going back to the individual properties. Sounds like a white flag to me.
• Vin Crosbie has a message for the leaders of the major newspaper chains. He sounds a wee bit miffed. Interesting point: Don't blame the crash on the Internet-- the circ decline started in 85; readership with the advent of television.
• Jay Rosen continues the discussion of today's and tomrorrow's press. My hometown continues to be at the forefront. I continue to wait for the businessfolk to join the conversation.
• The folks at Blogads are practicing open-source ad planning.
• Tim Porter's overview of a tough year for journalism: In order to survive, newspapers must change their form - form, not standard - of journalism (not to mention their means of advertising delivery), but, as radical as those new forms may seem in most newsrooms, I no longer think that is enough. Many news executives know what to do, but they still don't do it. They are handcuffed by cultures that not only inhibit change, but frequently punish those who champion it. What's needed is a fundamental organizational makeover. The current newsroom structure - segregated departments, hierarchical decision-making processes, platform specific (instead of agnostic) content, and strict producer-consumer division - does not permit change on a large enough scale to break newspapers free from the traditions that bind them.
  
  Everyone I talk to in the industry says that change will never come from within. That's why we're here.