Kevin: USA Today’s Chuck Raasch wonders if journalists are painting a grimmer economic picture than actually exists because of the woes of the newspaper industry

The Personal Democracy Forum collects essays from lots of big thinkers including Esther Dyson, Yochai Benkler, Jeff Jarvis, Micah Sifry and many more on how to re-energise, reorganise and reorient US democracy for the internet age.

Suw: Amazon use their power to bully small publishers by removing one click buy buttons from the titles of those publishers who are not submitting to Amazon’s demands. Disgraceful.

Kevin: Craig draws lessons from Iain Dale’s advertising model and makes some suggestions on why Google AdSense didn’t work for him. Craig suggests improvements on ad placement and the value of an ‘online presence’.