Kevin: Joshua Benton looks at the impact of a new, stricter commenting system on Gawker Media, the blogs empire run by Nick Denton. Trusted commenters got preferred access to the site, and while that caused an initial dip in commenting, it's now leading to an increase in comment at a higher rate than before.

Kevin: Kara Swisher on All Things D write: "“The ‘right-time’ Web is more valuable in some cases than the real-time web."

Kevin: Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times just mentioned this on Twitter, and it's an interesting site where developers and journalists (hackers and hacks) can help each other out.

Kevin: Pearson, part of which is the FT Group, has both an "internal and external" startup strategy. There are huge opportunities for startups to develop digital services to sell back to media organisations. The startup costs can be relatively small, and many news groups simply don't have the resources (or culture) for such development.