Kevin: Former Rocky Mountain News staffers are still hoping to launch an online news service, but their first effort has faltered. Journalists and their financial backers had hoped to get 50,000 paid subscribers, but they only got 3,000.

Kevin: Ethan Zuckerman, who used to work at free website competitor Tripod, lights a candle for GeoCities, which is the latest casualty in Yahoo's cull of unprofitable parts of its slightly unwieldy web empire. It's a brilliant post that takes a look at the history of the dot.com-era web and projects forward to today, looking at whether UGC properties such as Facebook, even with its wealth of demographic information, can generate sufficient income. Seeing as Yahoo bought GeoCities for $3.5bn in 1999, he wonders whether a company will pay a nine-figure sum for Facebook or Twitter, even though it's not clear how to make these sites profitable.

Kevin: Major players in the electronics industry such as Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and Toshiba have criticised the BBC's Project Canvas IPTV initiative. They say it will technologically isolate the UK and that it isn't based on truly open standards.

Kevin: It's like a blog post version of an E! show. Ze Frank. JenniCam. Amanda Congdon of RocketBoom.

Kevin: The American Journalism Review does an unscientific survey and some interviews to find out what life after journalism is for many people who have been laid off over the last decade. "Thousands upon thousands of newspaper journalists have lost their jobs in recent years in endless rounds of layoffs and buyouts. What happens in the next act?"

Kevin: A collection of web and tools collected by Erica Smith. It's comprehensive including basic web tools, geo-coding tools and tools for timelines and other visualisations.

Kevin: A relatively easy way to batch geocode addresses that you've got in a Google Spreadsheet.

Kevin: "It's a paradox: society can't survive without newspapers, but newspapers can't survive 21st century economics. Is there a solution? Let me step back into my M&A shoes for a second, and humbly suggest: the New York Times should acquire Twitter, instead of just professing love for it. Why? Not just because the New York "Twimes" sounds kind of cool — but because of the economics of news. News is about what's timely. There's nothing more timely than Twitter. Twitter would provide the NYT with four key resources and capabilities."

Kevin: The Washington Post has hired American Prospect's Ezra Klein, one of the top bloggers on politics and policy.