Kevin: Ethan Zuckerman has an excellent overview of Clay Shirky's talk at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School. Clay focused on 'accountability journalism' and what will replace newspapers, which he says produce the vast majority of original journalism. "The coherence of newspapers is no longer logical.” Clay observes that we’d never create anything as strange as the newspaper online. “Someone who just wanted a crossword puzzle – why would you next tell them about news in Tegucigalpa?” The hybrid model of the newspaper evolved because “it’s what print is capable of.”

Kevin: David Weinberger live blogs Clay Shirky's talk at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy about the future of newspapers. It's another look at the talk. One point I noticed: "There are three ways to create things accessible to the public. Private companies. NGOs. Social/peer production where people get together and do it. #3 had been confined to picnics, etc. Now it’s becoming a big part of the ecosystem. E.g., Pro Publica. Wikileaks. Open source."

Kevin: Joshua Benton at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard provides the entire talk that Clay Shirky gave this week at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. It's well worth reading and digesting. He believes that advertisers overpaid for the services that they received from newspapers. Another observation: "he coherence of newspapers is not intellectual, it’s industrial." The big question: What replaces newspapers? Well worth reading and thinking about.

Kevin: Maria Schneider left mainstream publishing behind last year to start Editor Unleashed, a site covering writing, publishing and social media. She looks at five journalists and their start-up projects. She talks about costs, advertising and technology. It's a good brief overview.

Kevin: An excellent graphic that shows the growth and decline of Wall Street firms in terms of market capitalisation over the duration of the crisis. It elegantly captures a lot of information and shows the shift.