Kevin: Jeff Jarvis writes about how Google's new Wave collaboration platform might be used for news.

Kevin: Mindy McAdams has a great post on journalism and engagement – "one of three legs needed to support successful social media projects". She goes on to write: "as newspapers were bought up by big corporations and clumped into feedlots like so many over-doped beef cattle. Newspapers stopped covering the day-to-day factual matters that concern people — the details about where they work, live, attend schools and churches/mosques/temples. As circulation numbers were pumped up by expanding the supposed “coverage area,” what really happened was that less and less of what matters to people was, in fact, covered." Go Mindy!

Kevin: Tony Hirst of Open University writes: "By adopting something akin to a data style guide these simple errors can be avoided, and the resulting data resources will be more valuable as a result."