Weekend reading

• We asked for a master list of citizen journalism sites. Johnathan Dube delivered.
     
• People are finally talking about the future of advertising with the fervor previously reserved for the newsroom:
  
  • This NY Times piece on the outlook for TV commercials touches on many of our core concepts.
  • Amazon was a big inspiration for our ad model. Here's why.
  • Ken Auletta rings in.
       
• Mark Cuban understands how multi-multi-channel distribution can make the content business attractive again-- and the risks if the pipelines are curtailed. And he's putting his money behind Grokster's legal fight to protect those lines.
     
• Another dirge for newspapers: As for the local papers: they will be shut down, their presses depreciated and scrapped, their offices leased out and the newsroom reporters scattered to the four winds of blogdom and specialty Web sites ... where they will provide local news, commentary, movie times and maybe even those long lost Little League box scores.
   
• Best stateside analysis I've seen on the need for news organizations to get on the mobile bandwagon.
     
• My schpeal on our plan generally involves a lesson on the Long Tail. A good reminder that this meme is often improperly used.
     
• Is Phil Anschutz' Examiner chain a web play in disguise? I don't think so. Yet.