St. Patty's bullets

• The trouble folks are having in naming things is indicative of the breadth of change that's hitting the _______ media.
     
• Jarvis on the State of the News Media report. He highlights my favorite line in the whole thing: There are now several models of journalism, and the trajectory increasingly is toward those that are faster, looser, and cheaper.
     
• Tim Oren rings back in on the decline of the MSM: A new medium, potentially profitable, but incapable of supporting the expense base of the legacy media. The MSM are poised on the brink. We're starting the sorting process of those media brands that will become party organs for the like minded, those that will risk their business and look to recreate value in an open content world, and those that will try to defend a dwindling branded empire until the end.
     
• Some interesting stats on readers of blogs.
     
• Y'know -- all this enterprise building is hard work. Maybe we should chuck it in and buy a franchise.
   
• Content with content and writing about writing.
     
• The maximum price for anything online is $1, according to this study.
   
• AP has figured out that some people want some voice in their news. No word on who's figured out that local newspapers should have local news.
     
• I have 37 remaindered Romenesko links I've been meaning to blog. If there's anyone who reads this blog that doesn't already read him, sorry-- I'm dumping them right now.
   
• Some really cool thoughts on trust as currency.