Kevin: I am a huge fan of visualisations, and I see them being a larger part of what we do as journalists. They can often uncover patterns in complex sets of information. Mashable highlights some fascinating visualisations that look at Facebook, the networks, connections and sharing in that vast group of groups.

Kevin: Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures talks explores the idea of sharing so much of one's life on the internet. "I also understand that many people will never twitter about their golf exploits or check into restaurants via foursquare. Not everyone wants to "life stream" like I do.

But a lot of people do. Extroversion on the web is a growing phenomenon."

Kevin: Augmented reality is one of the hot topics right now. The iPhone 3GS and some Android phones have what's necessary including a compass, a camera and a GPS system. Benn Parr looks at some of the hottest current apps, and in the future, we'll see "facial recognition, assisted directions, augmented reality tourism."

Kevin: It's a good, lengthy discussion on US public radio interview programme Fresh Air. Alex Jones is the director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F Kennedy School of government. His family owns newspapers, radio stations and other media properties, and he worries about comment especially on US cable news networks are replacing reporting and news.

Kevin: "National Public Radio (NPR) has just opened another means for developers to access content from NPR.org: a Transcript API. This API provides access to tens of thousands of transcripts from some of the most popular programs on NPR." Other radio orgs (hello BBC) should be looking at this. NPR is really moving forward with a lot of very interesting projects.

Kevin: Alan Mutter asks why newspapers didn't buy Everyblock, Adrian Holovaty's hyperlocal site (or micro-local as the site refers to itself). "The fact that the leading hyperlocal website was snatched up by a multimedia partnership operated by NBC and Microsoft shows a dismaying lack of imagination, foresight and, perhaps, economic resources on the part of the companies operating the nation’s struggling newspapers." And Alan continues, "With Microsoft, NBC and MSNBC feeding Everyblock resources and traffic, the site has the opportunity to take as big bite out of local news and advertising as Craig’s List took out of classified advertising."

Kevin: An interesting Q & A with Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian's Washington bureau chief about the Guardian's operations in the US.

Kevin: "Last Thursday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals weighed in on what procedural safeguards are necessary to protect the rights of Internet users to engage in anonymous speech. In Solers, Inc. v. Doe, the D.C. high court set out a stringent standard for its lower courts to follow and emphasized that a plaintiff "must do more than simply plead his case" to unmask an anonymous speaker claimed to have violated the law."

Kevin: Rafat Ali reports at paidContent: "as bigger portals continue to buy local sites (Patch, EveryBlock), newspapers continue to close them: latest example is Washington Post (NYSE: WPO), which is closing its only standalone local site LoudonExtra, two years after the hyperlocal site launched. The rationale from the company, as told to Loudoun Independent, by a WaPo spokesperson: 'We found that our experiment with LoudounExtra.com as a separate site was not a sustainable model.'"

Kevin: Steve Rubel highlights a nice feature that allows you to save articles to read on any mobile device via a service called Instapaper. Google Reader now allows you bookmark any article either on the desktop or via the mobile application and be able to read it using Instapaper. Very useful.

Kevin: This article says that Twitter and other social networks are increasingly the focus on hackers, but the Web Hacking Incidents Database report comes with a pretty significant health warning, it only focuses on 44 hacking incidents. Any change in a dataset that small will seem large in percentage terms.

Kevin: Patrick Smith at paidContent:UK writes: "All you need to know about newspaper circulation is that it’s dropping rapidly, and the decline shows no sign of slowing."

Kevin: John Ridding, chief executive of The Financial Times accuses general news publications who don't consider paid content guilty of fatalism. However, looking at the purchases that Person has made, it's quite clear that they are looking to target lucrative speciality finance verticals. This makes perfect business sense, and you can use this strategy to support journalism, just not by trying to charge for generic news content. Think of how newspapers have supported their businesses in the past and reconstruct premium verticals around it.

Kevin: Ben Parr at Mashable loves US National Public Radio's new app. It has the day's big stories and news articles but it also has links to the 1000+ NPR radio stations, news programmes and live streams, available to listen to anywhere.

Kevin: Stowe Boyd writes: "But I disagree that the conventional wisdom is now that newspapers screwed up by giving away content free: that's the conventional wisdom in old school journalist circles, and perhaps nowhere else.

I hold — along with others like Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen — that they are screwing up by not finding new means to compete in a horizontalized media world."

The Norwich-based publisher Archant has announced a 61.1 per cent fall in operating profits for the year up to June 2009, despite a rise in digital

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Kevin: It's a good post well worth reading that balalances realism with optimism. Tim Gleason, dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, writes: "In the midst of all this exciting innovation, there's one certainty: The future of journalism, whatever it looks like, is bright — we just have to figure out how to pay for it."

Kevin: Suw and I are big fans and users of Creative Commons. Mashable has a great list of places to get free audio, video and images, many of them using Creative Commons licences.

Suw: Very good post on the attitudes that get in the way of innovation.

Suw: I'm really not convinced by Barber. He seems to be viewing reality through rose-tinted specs. Would love to see evidence of the shift in attitudes to free content that he says he sees.

Suw: Steve Outing takes a look at different donation services for funding online content, with the help of a technology psychologist.

Kevin: "Let the monetization begin: SocialCord has created a platform for musicians, writers and brands to build a “freemium” model delivered over Twitter or mobile phones." It's a dead simple system in the US where you can subscribe to premium content from your favourite band, brand or blogger. It's a model worth watching, especially to see what kind of content people will pay for.

Kevin: ProgrammableWeb updates its list of mashups. Note how many use Google APIs.

Kevin: "gReactions is a cool comment aggregation add-on for Firefox that integrates blog comments into Google reader. It gathers comments from all over the web and displays below each post directly in your Google Reader"

Kevin: "CMSWire and Water and Stone are conducting a survey of open source CMS users and implementers for an upcoming report on Open Source CMS Market Share." I'll be very interested to see the results.

Kevin: I couldn't agree more with Zach Seward at Nieman Journalism Lab. "Traffic and page views are nice, but engaged readers and loyal audiences are more important." And he hghlights a brilliant tool called Tracer that can enable "tracking of copied text and any referral traffic it may produce". That's very interesting. Tracer can also allow publishers to see what parts of a page has been copied.

Kevin: Ian Shapira of the Washington Post writes: "After all the reporting, it took me about a day to write the 1,500-word piece. How long did it take Gawker to rewrite and republish it, cherry-pick the funniest quotes, sell ads against it and ultimately reap 9,500 (and counting) page views?" It's an interesting article and worth reading.

Kevin: Stowe Boyd weighs in on the discussion of the weekend, Ian Shapira of the Washington Post writing about how Gawker and how the "wild world" of the internet is killing journalism. Stowe says that most of the hand-wringing in traditional media "is completely off point".

" The real story is not about what is spent to write the stories, or how much ad revenue is derived by who. The really interesting economic shift is the millions of comments and twitterers and blog posts that are dealing with this controversy today, where no one is getting paid, or making money on ads, or getting a quarterly 401(k) statement."

Kevin: An excellent post on how to set up a social media monitoring system. Very complete and easy to follow