Kevin: Some observations about the thinking behind the Stephen Brill and (ex-WSJ) Gordon Crovitz Journalism Online project. Their promise to content companies is their ‘88-91’ formula – "that publishers can keep 88% of page views and 91% of online ad revenues while adding significant online circulation revenues (80 cents to $1.00 x 10% of monthly unique) AND boosting PRINT circ revenue (with bundled offers) while lowering PRINT sub acquisition and retention costs.”

Kevin: Zach Seward at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard unpacks ideas around newspapers erecting paywalls. It's not necessarily about generating revenue but creating scarcity and protecting the high revenue print product. It's not a binary decision of paywall or no paywall. Newspapers are working on new premium information services. Also, content paywalls probably aren't the long-term solution but rather a short-term, stopgap measure.

Kevin: Tom Steinberg of mySociety (a digital empowerment organisation in the UK) suggests how government can be on the side of citizens (probably more than they are now).

Kevin: Video of Jeff Jarvis' talk to Google's headquarters in Washington DC.

Kevin: "Here at the acoustics research centre at the University of Salford, we hope to discover how and why people react the way they do to the sound around them using a revolutionary combination of mobile phone technologies. This allows members of the public to carry out sound surveys themselves, something that until now had not been possible."

Kevin: Josh Marshall talks about the origins and development of Talking Points Memo. It started off during the 2000 Florida recount in the US presidential election. From that, the site has grown to 10 employees and has one to two million readers. Some of the early money came from calls to readers to sponsor his journalism such as when he wanted to cover the US elections in 2004.