Suw: Clive Thompson on Piers Steel’s recently released formula for calculating at what point you’ll give up procrastinating at a certain task and actually pull your finger out. Note that I’m not procrastinating right now. Honest.

Suw: Take part in two University of Calgary procrastination studies and learn a bit about your own procrastination in the process. Perfect thing to do if you’re trying to avoid something more important.

Kevin: Guardian tech corr Bobbie Johnson gives some great tips on multimedia reporting based on his experience recently at CES. Ah, so familiar.

Kevin: A good overview by Ryan Sholin of video at newspapers including how they do what they do.

Kevin: Staci Kramer at PaidContent runs through a raft of deals that CBS announced at CES. It is an interesting to look at how broadcast media are responding to new challenges.

Kevin: The Washington Post’s Rob Curley talks about how the future is all local.

Kevin: The Daily Telegraph has taken down a blog by their Washington correspondent after he blogged about writing the story about Saddam Hussein’s hanging before it took place. Journalists pre-write pieces. But can you blame this on ‘old media’ deadlines,

Kevin: In case you actually want to read some of the blog and the comments that the Telegraph pulled down after their Washington correspondent tried to explain writing a story before Saddam Hussein’s execution took place, you can read it here.

Kevin: Tish Grier responds to Steve Rubel’s predition that social media is dead because all media is now social. Tish thinks it’s a case of A-lister-itis. I agree with Tish. Not all media is social yet, and it ignores the challenges that still face tradit

Suw: Wow. Keith Waterhouse’s English is so poor as to make this article almost unreadable. He calls himself ‘a scribbler of the old school’, but closer to the truth would be ‘a scribbler from primary school’. Seems to know nothing of blogging or citizen j

Kevin: Steve Yelvington says: “To connect with the new passive majority, you need to be engaged in a broad conversation (that largely isn’t about news), and professional journalism simply has not yet figured out how to do that.”

Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson gives his wish list for 2007. I hear ya John. I’d like more participation, better delivery by our technology and more experimentation.

“Describing the posts simplistically, Anderson wants to not only show readers what’s behind the curtain at Wired, but let them help control the wizard.”

Paul Gillin says that ‘near-total collapse of the American newspaper industry as we know it is inevitable’. The business model is broken and the one that replaces it – ‘the emerging economics of the blogosphere’ – are ‘far more cost-efficient.

The Guardian’s Nik Silver gives a good overview of the new travel site. Tags, categorisation, RSS. It’s the direction the entire site is heading.

A great comparison and contrast of various compensation models for citizen journalism. Great to see Mike Tippet’s NowPublic get some recognition.

A good roundup on an e-mail making the rounds from a student on whether blogging is a valid form of journalism. My reply to this is that most people confuse a technology with content and also think mistakenly that most bloggers write about current events.

How to inspire an engineering and development team. Great post.

Jay Rosen suggests why Newspapers should blog. “Reader loyalty and engagement with the site: that’s why newspapers should be starting blogs,” Jay says.

The EBU’s Michael Mullane asks if blogs can scale after some bloggers say that big media blogs will collapse under the weight of the comment load. He rejects that idea saying that engagement can still happen even as the comments spiral into the hundreds,

A state of economic union of the meta-verse, aka Second Life.

Yahoo! was stuck with its mature “corporate” operating philosophy, which led to fiefdoms, swelling executive ranks (and nothing kills entrepreneurial spirit and fosters finger-pointing like overpadded management) and lack of, well, vision.

Om says: “What Yahoo needs is an ability to form an emotional connection with its users. Instead of being just MyYahoo users, they should have a religious fervor with Yahoo’s services.” As I was saying in a meeting today, people need to feel a ownership

News websites can embrace the readership while newspapers cling to ‘Us and Them’ attitude, writes AOL UK’s director of day team and welcome screen Simon Hinde, who adds: “Newspapers continue to cling to an “us and them” world in which journalists are clev

Howard Owens has more thoughts about how news websites should be doing video. I especially like when he says: “I’ve also gotten over any Church of Journalism attitudes I used to have about giving people the castor oil they need rather than the candy the

The future isn’t about multi-platform publishing but multi-platform stories. Repurposing isn’t as compelling about telling stories for multiple platforms.