Suw: An old but interesting post from Clay Shirky about how businesses create processes in a hyper-risk-averse manner, trying to stamp out any opportunity for mistakes and instead replacing mistakes with organisational process arthritis.

Kevin: Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming. It’s still struggling to survive.

Kevin: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John McQuaid says: “But there aren’t many true innovators out there yet in positions of authority, and those who are are struggling against an archaic institutional architecture that remains despite all the layof

Kevin: This is a BusinessWeek story from 1998 chronicling the death of the New Century Network, an online newspaper coalition that never coalesced. It’s a good lesson on what not to do. Well, they didn’t do much.