Kevin: A sceptic of user-generated content says it doesn’t belong on the mainstream media. It’s an interesting post that might counter some of the general entusiasm about UGC in the media.

Suw: *giggle*

Kevin: Vin Crosbie gives a scathing but extremely useful critique of the over-use of the term “citizen journalism”. Not everyone wants to be professional journalists.

Kevin: Very timely piece in BusinessWeek about Gannett’s new approach. “Some of what Gannett stresses is the kind of Web 101 that local newspapers should have been doing all along.”

Kevin: Study finds that in the US, in five years, local online video advertising will exceed $5 billion, roughly one-third of all local online ads.

Kevin: Newspaper video may trump TV online, but only if they don’t try to be TV.