Kevin: Erin Teeling of the Bivings report looks at some of the restrictive – and self defeating – rules some newspaper bloggers are labouring under. They can’t link out to other news sites? No wonder Bivings thinks they suck.

Kevin: Editor and Publisher calls for the Virginia Tech college newspaper to be in a consideration for a Pulitzer for their coverage of the shooting. They did a stellar job and showed how to break news online even when their servers were melting.

Kevin: Forrester challenges the 1-9-90 ‘rule’ that posits that only a small group of people online actively create content. This is must read research in the US market showing how broad and varied participation online is.

Kevin: Mart Potts has another great post on the failing economics of the newspaper business. “That’s what happens when you paste a business model and product onto a computer screen, rather than try to truly innovate.”