It’s not user-generated content. It’s self-expression. Jon Pareles writes: “Terminology aside, this will be remembered as the year that the old-line media mogul, the online media titan and millions of individual Web users agreed: It demands attention.”

A blogger who writes in French and English questions Technorati’s methodology and its view of the internet. Important questions here and some answers from Technorati.

Simon McGarr and his fellow bloggers spend a weekend reading the papers in Dublin, comparing where each one gets its stories and the quality of the resulting paper. Pie charts illustrate just how little journalism is involved, and how reliant on PR the pa

Simon McGarr and co’s opinions of their weekend newspaper reads, concentrated over one weekend

Pretty shoddy-looking press release touting Edelman tool that seems itself to miss the point that social media is done by real humans, not a process that can be automated. Accusations of idea being nicked from SHIFT Comms in the comments.

News sites need community. Community needs strategy. Rich Gordon has some excellent ideas.