Kevin: Danny Sullivan is a journalist and has some straight talk for newspapers complaining about Google. The whole post is worth reading but can be summed up succinctly: "Fix your problems; don't look for scapegoats."

Kevin: Robert Thomson, the Australian-born editor of The Wall Street Journal, calls internet aggregators who don't pay a fee to content companies "parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".

Kevin: Anil Dash looks at the arguments being made by the Associated Press as it battles 'misappropriation' of its content (members content if we're being absolutely honest) and how their arguments differs from some of the values expressed by bloggers. "If the Associated Press made its argument on the basis of credibility and reputation, transparency and accountability, as the web-native publishers have, it would be far easier to defend their desire to share in the business model developed by the aggregators."

Kevin: Andy Baio, a journalist and programmer (creator of Upcoming.org), looks at some of the differences and different assumptions pertaining to attribution amongst journalists and different types of bloggers in conjunction with how the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is excerpting content from bloggers. All Things D is making the effort to engage with the bloggers that have been excerpted, but there is a pattern of traditional news organisations taking bloggers' content, sometimes entire posts without payment, and then criticising for quoting news stories. Mainstream media can't have it both ways.

Kevin: Dave Cohn defines his terms, and it's incredibly useful for those unfamiliar with some of the terms he uses including citizen journalism, stand-alone journalism, pro-am journalism, networked journalism and open-source journalism.

Kevin: "Joe Rospars, the man behind President Barack Obama's new-media effort during his election, said the campaign didn't win because it used the latest technology. Rather, its secret was a holistic approach — one easily copied by regular marketers — that integrated digital tools into the overall strategy. "

Kevin: Heather Dougherty at Hitwise looks at data showing referrals for News & Media websites. Search tops everything by a healthy amount. Also, another important take away from the data is that aggregators send traffic to news sites. "Although several of the online aggregators are at the heart of the content distribution argument, they do successfully send visits to news properties rather than keeping them upon their own websites."