Kevin: "John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers." He says of bloggers, "Almost anyone can start one of these sites, with very little capital, no training or qualifications. Then there are the bloggers. In return for their free content, we pretty much get what we’ve paid for – something of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance."

Kevin: The venture will be supported through donations and grants and will operate independently from the Union-Tribune.

Kevin: Mark S. Luckie, which gives 30 simple activities journalism graduates could do to experiment and improve their online skills this summer.

Kevin: Malcolm Coles suggests that with the low user base that UK newspapers should shut off their "hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to an alternative, such as their Twitter accounts".

I disagree, but then I'm using an RSS reader, NetNewsWire to read this post so am in the minority. However, I would say that he misses broader points not just of RSS but of the broader issues of machine readable formats. RSS is an enabling technology that has much borader application than simply the small number of people who use them browsing large amounts of data.

Kevin: Ken Doctor writes: "“Mobile.”

“Video.”

Usually, these are the rather dry one-world descriptions of What’s Next, items on to-do lists for anyone serious about building new digital businesses. Add “Social,” and you’ve got a trifecta."

Kevin: Martin Langeveld thinks about how he would set up a new news organisation and concludes: "In other words, the viable business model they can glimpse — consisting, perhaps, of a weekend-only or twice-weekly printed byproduct of an online-first publishing operation — represents such a downsizing of the enterprise that it can’t possibly carry the company’s legacy debt load, so the only way to make the transition is first file Chapter 11."

Kevin: Charlie Beckett writes: "People turn on news channels for news. Instant news, short news, live news. By all means create different programming but don’t waste your time trying to put it on a 24 hour TV news channel."