Kevin: Optimism from newspaper editors but “Fifty eight per cent believed falling youth readership was their biggest threat, ahead of the internet itself (38 per cent) and lack of innovation and development (36 per cent).”

Kevin: Josh Wolf has an idea for a new form of live news coverage pulling together video services like Qik, Flixwagon and UStream plus Twitter and Skype call ins. He says that it will only take him $1500 to get it off the ground. Faster, better, cheaper.

Kevin: New York Times visualation of how inflation is affecting the average consumer. It manages to fit a tremendous amount of information in a concise format.

Kevin: US newspapers face a continuing decline in circulation and also revenue as the economic downturn. However, the American Press Institute points to 24 newspapers leading in innovation becoming “information and connection utilities”.

Kevin: Adam Tinworth collects three great quotes from the Journalism Leaders Forum. Sounds like they were reacting to a lot of FUD – Fear, Uncertainty and Denial – from mainstream media folk. Sounds like digital natives are saying they’re angry and aren’t

Kevin: Sarah Hartley’s post very clearly explains the new economic realities facing media companies. They are being undercut by lower margin rivals. The battle is for “attention, time and reputation”.

Kevin: Amy Gahran at Poynter challenges what she journalists’ assumptions she finds in her training. She’s getting aggravated at what she sees as close mindedness that she believes are preventing journalists from seeing and seizing opportunities.

Kevin: An excellent example of how social media is not just about publishing, but also about listening. Tweetscan and Summize help people listen to what their customers are saying and help make their products better.

Kevin: Great post from Craig talking about how to increase traffic, length of visit and ultimately revenue. It might be the start of a web journalism mission statement.

Kevin: Will YackTrack help solve address the challenge of “conversation fragmentation in the blogosphere and … new services”.

Kevin: Great thinking from Chris Brogan (via Craig McGinty). Tips on management structure for communities as well as metrics and success criteria.

Kevin: Madison (Wisconsin) Cap Times stops the presses on their daily newspaper becoming an online only plus twice a week tabloid. But as Jay Rosen says: “The presses have stopped but the press goes on.”

Kevin: Interesting article about the Cap Times move to web plus twice weekly tabloid. One investigative journalists worries about feeding the beast, but the ‘beast’ feeds investigations by freeing up journalists. But the beast must be fed.

Kevin: Mark Glaser is live blogging a conference at Berkeley called “Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Reporting?” Great coverage of a conversation amongst senior media executives. Mark asks: “Are these the people who will really see

Kevin: When lawyers attack blogs. Thomson rolls out a blogging code of ethics as part of their merger with Reuters. Some of this makes sense such as not using a personal blog to air grievances about colleagues, but I don’t see the logic behind barring emp

Kevin: News organisations need to pay attention to this. Google’s app engine, Amazon’s S3 and EC2 and open source software are driving down the cost of start-up and innovation experimentation. Too many companies suffer from the ‘not invented here’ complex

Kevin: Steve Yelvington: “Context creates value. And another way: Loyalty accrues to the place that helps you find things, not necessarily the place that produces things.”

Kevin: Yahoo has been building a nice stable of Web 2.0 properties, but they haven’t really done much to connect those dots until now. Yahoo’s embrace of open standards is finally making that possible. Another important lesson in being part of the network

Kevin: Good tips from Nick Booth on building an online community. News organisations want online communities but don’t put enough time, effort and thought into supporting them.

Kevin: Sorry to have missed Adam at the Tuttle Breakfast, but he has some great quick notes on the conversation. I like his observation of how titles can be the barrier to organisational change. Also: How to maintain passion as medium endures?

Kevin: Paul Conley says: “No ‘print’ journalist should assume that there’s a place for him in the new world’. Worth the read, but the battle between ‘print’ and ‘web’ people isn’t over.

Kevin: Mindy McAdams highlights a post from journalism student Jared Silfies who takes a picture of his mobile backpack. My kit bags in the past actually counted as excess baggage. Things are faster, better, cheaper and much, much smaller.

Kevin: WSJ looks at study on blog reading habits. It’s a relatively small study. “Rather than focusing on helping readers wade through a deluge of information content, one could envision tools that focus on the reader’s relationship with the blogger or

Kevin: Must read from Q&A with Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com. “We’re trying to create something that’s true to this medium, that borrows the best of what works in print and that takes advantage of the unique aspects of digital media.” Halleluj