Kevin: Charlie succinctly describes changes in journalism in this post when he writes: “I have already written at length about how journalism is no longer a product but a process. It is not a manufacturing industry anymore, it is a service. And as I have said, it must now find ways to be part of other networks rather than simply create online spaces of its own. This is truly Networked Journalism.”n

Kevin: This is a comprehensive list of not only how to increase the number of followers for your news organisation but also a good overview of services that journalists can use for Twitter such as BackTweets, which allows you to see who is linking to your stories on Twitter.

Kevin: ”
OverviewSome 74% of internet users–representing 55% of the entire adult population–went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election. This marks the first time that a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey has found that more than half of the voting-age population used the internet to get involved in the political process during an election year.”

Kevin: Seven great examples of how data can be used to help tell stories and show trends, in other words to do great journalism. The examples show how Twitter can be used to chart the spread of flu in New York City, how data shows the frequency of fatal traffic accidents across the US and how a map helps show the areas of Toronto with the highest rate of sexually transmitted disease.

Kevin: “Researchers from City University London have published a report showing one European newspaper’s steep drop in revenue as well as unsteady Web traffic after it became an online-only publication.”

Kevin: Dante Chinni at the Christian Science Monitor looks at the closing of the Ann Arbor Daily News. The reaction he reports by people in Ann Arbor: ‘unfazed’. (I used to work at MLive.com, which published the website of the Ann Arbor News.)

Kevin: Kos of the Daily Kos responds to this common comment: ‘Whenever we debate the future of newspapers, inevitably someone asks, “if they go out of business, where will blogs get their stories?'” He lists the sources for stories on the Daily Kos over the last week. Newspapers counted for 20%. He says: “It’s always sad to lose a good source of journalism. But we live in a rich media environment, easily the richest in world history, and the demise of the newspaper industry will simply shift much of the journalistic work they did to other media.”

Kevin: The Next Web blog has an interesting analysis about what they see as Google’s social network play – building a network of apps with sociality cooked into them – for instance, Gmail with GTalk, Maps with Latitude and Google Reader with sharing and commenting features. They also have some suggestions on how the social experience could be better such as easier ways to add friends, add a friend stream and improve the design and how all of the apps work together.