Kevin: From Businessweek: “Forget reader comments and message boards. Media outfits are warming to wikis to build a solid meeting ground for their Internet audiences”. But the LaTimes’ and Wired’s wiki efforts show risks as well as opportunities.

Kevin: Ryan Sholin has a great look at the how of hyperlocal in 30 second. Well worth the 30 seconds and more.

Kevin: BusinessWeek article looks at new competitors to Second Life. The numbers look impressive, especially with Korea’s Nexon Corp’s offerings. But are virtual worlds ‘mainstream’? $1.6m revenue in February for MapleStory might suggest so.

Kevin: GarageBand pros out there can once again remix a Nine Inch Nails track. This is the kind of ‘user generated content’ that I like.