Kevin: Rob Diana explores OpenID and OAuth and explains why the two are so important for Internet users.

Kevin: Mark Glaser has a lengthy and incredibly useful interview with Vickey Williams from the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. Increbily useful information on cultural challenges in news organisations.

Kevin: Kristine Lowe, Journalism.co.uk’s blogger on online journalism in Scandinavia, discovers how Norwegian newspaper group A-Pressen is finding success with its social network.

Kevin: Details and discussion on the cancellation of NPR’s social media experiment, the Bryant Park Project (BPP). NPR struggling with it’s own organisation is hardly unique, but it faces some unique challenges.

Kevin: NPR’s CEO responds to the cancellation fo the Bryant Park Project. He says that it would take support from 25,000 people. That doesn’t seem like a lot of people to me.

Paul deals with distracting nature of the net by having two computers – one for ‘work’ and one for ‘online activities’ such as email and surfing. Question is, what do you do if your work resides online, in the cloud?

Kevin: A Pew study of US newspapers released today finds that national and international news coverage is declining as ad revenue plummets an emphasis shifts toward local stories. While …

Kevin: The New York Times will deliver business news to LinkedIn users based on the verticals they are interested in. Paul Bradshaw sees this as another step torwards personalised news.

Kevin: Good post by Om Malik on 8-hr outage of Amazon S3, knocking several services or parts of services offline. How much for 99.9% uptime?

Kevin: Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job? Source: Columbia Journalism Review

Kevin: “Despite an image of decline, more people today in more places read the content produced in the newsrooms of American daily newspapers than at any time in years. But revenues are tumbling.”

Suw: An old but interesting post from Clay Shirky about how businesses create processes in a hyper-risk-averse manner, trying to stamp out any opportunity for mistakes and instead replacing mistakes with organisational process arthritis.

Kevin: Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming. It’s still struggling to survive.

Kevin: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John McQuaid says: “But there aren’t many true innovators out there yet in positions of authority, and those who are are struggling against an archaic institutional architecture that remains despite all the layof

Kevin: This is a BusinessWeek story from 1998 chronicling the death of the New Century Network, an online newspaper coalition that never coalesced. It’s a good lesson on what not to do. Well, they didn’t do much.

Kudos both to The Economist for one of the most creative corrections to a correction ever, and also to Stephen J. Dubner of the Freakonomics blog for his humour in accepting it. It is an excellent example of how bloggers should listen as well as publish.

Kevin: The cover of a recent BusinessWeek about the runup in oil and gasoline prices framed the question of what’s causing it nicely: “Speculation or Manipulation?” But the story was maddeningly evenhanded.

Kevin: Mark Schaver rejects the view of luddite newspaper execs for the decline of the industry in the US. He points to several forward looking projects. But why did they fail?

Kevin: The World Association of Newspapers launches a rebuttal to the naysayers who say that print is dying. They are asserting the ‘power of the press’. Is this all about a loss of power?

Kevin: Journalist-intern Jessica da Silva weighs into the hyperlocal debate and comments on Rob Curley’s Loudon County Extra project at the Washington Post. Communication and integration at news orgs can definitely be improved.

Kevin: Tips on how to use Yahoo Pipes to fitler, translate and merge RSS feeds.

Surprised by the very low figures in this article for number of enterprise blogs, also disappointed that businesses still don’t understand what blogs are all about: ‘the majority of blogs read like “tired, warmed-over press releases.”‘ *sigh*

Suw: Amongst men, entreprenuers have more testosterone than non-entrepreneurs. Wonder if hormones in female entrepreneurs are also different from non-entrepreneurs

Suw: Women who read about other women who are successful rate themselves more positively than women who read about men, or read nothing at all. Men don’t show a difference. This illustrates the importance of role models for women

Suw: Gender stereotypes distort our memories of past achievement: women reminded of the stereotype that men do better at maths subsequently underestimated their own ability in maths; men did the same when talking about the arts