Kevin: Larry Kramer, former CEO of Marketwatch.com says that new news sites lack strong editorial leadership and voice. "Almost none of these sites have built a true journalistic infrastructure, with a powerful editorial voice at the top and a collective group of people who both worry continuously about how their content is being presented and who lead the army of reporters down their many paths with critical review and the benefit of experience. Together, these forces create journalistic greatness"

Kevin: Allourideas.org has a widget that allows you to create an "idea marketplace" on your site much as you would embed a YouTube video.

Kevin: Christian Christensen says that the real power of Wikileaks isn't in the technology but the trust "readers have in the authenticity of what they are reading". He believes several myths are surround the story such as the power of social media and the death of the nation-state and journalism.

Kevin: Mark Briggs says that journalism grads are finding jobs but they are not of the traditional repoter/editor variety. Online community managers are in demand, and new media companies such as Yahoo and AOL are hiring. Mark flags up a new job with the Tribune Corporation (bankrupt publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other things) for producer/editors or "preditors".

Kevin: Amy Starlight Lawrence looks at "four transformational trends" in journalism education. The second one is very interesting: Journalism and communication schools as content and technology innovators. "We see the early adopters among you experimenting with new story forms, teaching everything from data visualisation, web scraping and computational journalism, even developing new software".

Kevin: Tom Simonite at MIT's Technology Review looks at a new service called PeerIndex, launched by former Reuters innovation head Azeem Azhar, that tries to show influence of Twitter users. There are other companies in this field, most notably Klout, but Azhar says that his service is different. PeerIndex looks "at the information contained in the tweets, and how that information spreads, to find authority in specific subject areas".

Kevin: paidContent.org reports Demand Media's financial filings with US securities regulator, SEC, before its anticipated IPO. They skip OBIDA numbers that Demand is pushing and focus on the standard financials to show a $22.2m loss for the first half of 2010 on revenue of $114m.

Kevin: Peter Kafka, writing the Media Memo at the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, looks at the numbers that Demand Media is highlighting ahead of its reportedly $1 to $1.5bn IPO or market floatation. Depending on what numbers you look at, the company either has made or lost money, and Goldman Sachs looks to be highlighting non-GAAP numbers to make the balance sheet look quite a bit better than it is. Well worth a read.

Kevin: Writing on the Facebook Developer Blog, Justin Osofsky writes about how media organisations are using the social network and gives examples of best practices. Just to highlight point one, sites using Facebook's "Like Button" see three to five times higher click-through rates.

Kevin: Ken Doctor looks at the local site launched earlier this year in Hawaii with the backing of eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar. Civil Beat asks people for $19.99 to participate. Ken says: " In my community, I’d have great local news reporting, great community discussion — and great Yelp-like functionality, great Open Table-like functionality, great-Angie’s List like-functionality, hey, great eBay-like-functionality-mixed with craigslist (aka The New Classifieds!)." Ken is really asking where is the broader business model.

Kevin: A live chat at the Poynter journalism institute with Jim Brady and Steve Buttry of the new local news site in Washington DC in the US, TBD.com. It is a partnership with a local television station, and Jim talks about integrating a web operation with a TV station. Steve, head of community engagement at the site, talks about their blog network and ad and revenue sharing.