Busy bullets

Too much going on right now to do serious blogging justice. In the meantime, some things to chew on:

• Dan Gillmor's notes on The Changing Economics of News
     
• Tim Porter has some nice reads up this week. Can't improve on this hedline: "Big Media to Craig: It's On You, Dude." Also, a roundup on the "tipping point" for change in the news business, including a nice shout out to us.
     
• Bakersfield's going mobile. Note the popularity of local news in their study.
   
• Andrew Nachison with some parting thoughts from the ASNE conference
     
• A few rotten apples can ruin things for the whole bunch. Take spammers and email marketing. Take spammers and text messaging. Now, evil "super-cookies" threaten honest publishers who want to customize sites for users. Developing...
     
• Again, everyone who ever thinks about the media should be reading Paid Content. Currently tagged: WSJ price hike?; Micropayments; AP to charge for online re-use and much more...
   
• Speaking of the AP move, Alan Mutter praises it as a nudge to newspapers and a sign that digital news is the future.
   
• First, bloggers put the cred of mainstream journos into question. Now, an inversion. Generalization as bloodsport.
   
• Circulation vs. Readership. Imprecise and (um) impreciser.
     
  
• It's not a bubble.