Bullet the blog sky

• Steve Outing, and in response, Tim Porter on what journalists can learn from blogs. Reminds me a lot of the mad early-August scribblings of an idealistic young Pegasus.
• Tom Hespos: 2005 - The Year of Hyperfragmentation
• A California court says that there's no regulatory difference between a website and a newspaper. I know of one little-discussed, but very lucrative, line of print advertising that could be in serious play if that becomes a precedent.
• All eyes on my hometown:
  
  • More from PressThink
  • Interesting thoughts from Joe Gandelman.
  • Yeah, so John Robinson is one of my heroes now. But where's Robin Saul? I'm not picking on him per se, but I'm still wondering where are the publishers, circ managers and ad reps in this conversation? Without them, the discussion is intellectually interesting, but not nearly as impactful as it could/should be.
  • Ed Cone sees bloggers worrying about the money, though: There is an urge among some Greensboro bloggers to kill a goose that has yet to lay a single golden egg. People who write for free are worried about losing money they don't make to a company that doesn't have a clear plan for capitalizing on their work. (Hmm. Reminds me of an unrelated situation with a friend of mine.)
• Simon Waldman touches on the unforeseen changes in distribution that lie on the horizon thanks to RSS. Very in line with our plan-- our feeds will lead you to our stuff and other outlets, both MSM and blog.
• More Joe Gandelman, with a newspaperman's view on the WaPo purchase of Slate.
• Russell Buckley describes Flikr's rabid fan base. That's the kind of relationship we dream of having with our co-conversants.
• How aggregators are filling a role that Google can't.

Comments

[Tim Porter]

"... an idealistic young Pegasus." Ah, you've aged so quickly, grasshopper. :)

[Publisher]

That was before trying to construct financials ;)