Kevin: A great overview of milblogs, members of the military who blog. I’ve worked with several soldier bloggers to get another view of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s an amazing, almost immediate view on the wars from a first person point of view.

Kevin: Steve Outing writes about breaking news coverage via Twitter. I used Twitter to quickly write about a fire in London last week. It is good for alerts.

Kevin: Steve Yelvington has a smart, nuanced response to a Guardian article decrying the death of sharp newspaper headline writing as newsrooms integrate. Print and web are two different media and require different approaches to succeed.

Kevin: Clyde Bentley looks at the difference between bloggers and journalists. “The more I look, the less evidence I find to support my assumptions about what information interests people, how they value it and what they believe.”

Kevin: Tish Grier says about journalism: “we can get things to change, but we have to get over the entrenched professionalism of the past 20-odd years that is blocking any sort of innovation and creative thinking that might bubble up from the people”

Kevin: I’m loathe to link to Henry Blodget after his record as an analyst during the dot.com boom. But he points that the Washington Post’s newspaper business may slip into the red.

Kevin: An interesting post comparing and contrasting the British media from an American newspaper editor who spent time in the UK. Read the 1993 journal entry

Kevin: Rich Gordon uses Gannett to explain why data is journalism and how best to deliver it.

Kevin: Alex Clover at the Bivings Report gives 10 tech predictions for 2008. Google drives adoption of OpenID. Asus’ barebones laptop a hit. Interesting

Kevin: Andy Dickinson points to a WSJ article via Lost Remote an interesting article about MSN and Yahoo teams looking for niche content providers. News organisations take note.

Kevin: A mobile online reporting vehicle from the Shelby Star. Online gives newspapers an opportunity to break news and do rolling news for a fraction of the cost of television. This is a competitive advantage that few newspapers are exploring.

Kevin: Ryan Sholin has a great post on how to do traditional coverage in non-traditional ways. Don’t just cover the meeting, cover the impact of the meeting. Make politics real for people. That’s good journalism and good for democracy.

Kevin: When I first started in reporting in the mid-90s, our sports team still used the TRS-80 portables. Is there one device that is that useful and robust now? What’s your favourite mobile tool of choice? Is there one tool that can do it all?

Kevin: Dan Gillmor thinks outloud about how to improve political debates. This is thinking that a lot of us are doing: How to raise the bar for online debates and discussions. What innovations editorially and technically can we devise to make debates bett

Kevin: Scott Karp has an interesting post about why the NYTimes isn’t offering full feeds on Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics blog now that it’s move to the Times’ site. Advertisers won’t pay for ads in feeds. Sometimes, many times, advertisers are slow and

Suw: James Gardner talks about “the difficulty that a certain segment of the workforce is having grasping the rapid shifts in the way that business is done, mostly because of new collaboration and social media tools.”

Kevin: FishbowlDC (via TechRepublican.com) posts a Washington Post memo on what works and doesn’t work for blogging. Blogs have a voice. Blogs have focus. Blogs are frequently updated.

Kevin: Jay Rosen gives some advice to the Cleveland Plain Dealer following the meltdown of their blogging experiment Wide Open. Jay called P-D’s reader rep’s explanation: ‘almost a primer in legacy media sludge think’

Kevin: Frightening graph showing McClatchy’s $4bn loss in market value in two years after it purchased Knight-Ridder. McClatchy is a hard-driving, focused company. Pretty unsettling.

Kevin: I just re-discovered this roundup of excellent posts from Derek Willis he titles: Fixing Journalism. This is a must read grouping of posts. Derek makes the case for better collaboration, for more structured information and for innovation.

Kevin: Ewan McIntosh has a great post about digital literacy in education, but put your industry in when he says education and see if it it’s relevant to your industry.

Kevin: New news site launches in Minnesota trying to create ‘an online news site that’s committed to in-depth high-quality journalism – and is financially viable for the long term’.

Kevin: Steve Yelvington reviews the new MinnPost launch, unfavourably. “MinnPost is a mid-20th century product in a strange 21st century world, and I found it needlessly dull.”