Kevin: Good post by Om Malik on 8-hr outage of Amazon S3, knocking several services or parts of services offline. How much for 99.9% uptime?

Kevin: Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job? Source: Columbia Journalism Review

Kevin: “Despite an image of decline, more people today in more places read the content produced in the newsrooms of American daily newspapers than at any time in years. But revenues are tumbling.”