Kevin: Fred Wilson looks at how WordPress and Tumblr are allowing posting and reading via the Twitter API. Fred quotes Dave Winer who says: "If Facebook were to implement the Twitter API that would be it. We'd have another FTP or HTTP or RSS." Very interesting propositions.

Kevin: The US newspaper industry faced what they thought was another existential threat in 1845. It was the telegraph. However, the technology was disruptive, but not in the way the newspapers feared. Some of the comments mirror what's being said now. It's fascinating to see the historical parallels between commentary about the telegraph in the 19th Century and radio, TV and now the internet in the 20th and 21st.

Kevin: David Sasaki looks back five years ago to the 2004 Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center which gave rise to the excellent bridge blogging project, Global Voices.

Kevin: A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact.

Kevin: Nathan at Flowing Data writes: "It's exciting times for data, indeed.Data has been declared sexy, and the rise of the data scientist is here." He hands out gongs for the five best visualisation projects of the year.

Kevin: Roy Greenslade writes in the Guardian: "According to the latest ABC figures, for the month of November, the Indy sold 186,557 copies a day. A closer look shows, however, that just 93,231 were sold at the full cover price." How much longer before the Indy is sold? Not long I would expect.

Kevin: Robert Andrews writes: "TV isn’t dying, it’s just going real-time. As our post revealing the popularity of X Factor on Twitter showed, viewers expressing their opinions about shows using the computer on their lap and the mobile in their hand are bringing a new social dimension to television."